New South Wales Consolidated Acts

DENTAL PRACTICE ACT 2001 - SECT 15

15 Power to refuse or impose conditions on full registration

(1) The Board may refuse to register a person who would otherwise be entitled to full registration as a dentist if:

(a) the Board is of the opinion, following an inquiry under Schedule 1, that the person is not competent to practise dentistry or suffers from an impairment, or

(b) the person has been convicted of or made the subject of a criminal finding for an offence, either in or outside the State, and the Board is of the opinion that the circumstances of the offence are such as to render the person unfit in the public interest to practise dentistry, or

(c) the person’s registration under a health registration Act has been cancelled or suspended because of conduct that would (if the person were a registered dentist) authorise cancellation or suspension of the person’s registration under this Act, or

(d) the person’s registration or certification under a dentists registration law has been cancelled or suspended because of conduct that would (if it occurred in New South Wales and the person were a registered dentist) authorise cancellation or suspension of the person’s registration under this Act.

(2) As an alternative to refusing to register a person under subsection (1), the Board may grant the person registration subject to conditions if the Board considers that refusal of registration is not warranted and that the person should be granted registration subject to appropriate conditions.

(3) Conditions of registration may relate to the duration of registration, the aspects of the practice in which the person may be engaged, and any other matters, as the Board thinks appropriate.

Note: The Mutual Recognition laws also provide for the imposition of conditions on registration. Conditions can also be imposed on a person’s registration as a result of disciplinary proceedings to which the person has been subject.

(4) In this section:
"dentists registration law" means any law of a place outside the State that provides for the registration or certification of dentists.