New South Wales Consolidated Acts

DENTAL PRACTICE ACT 2001 - SECT 37

37 Notification of convictions, criminal findings and charges

(1) A registered dental care provider must notify the Board in writing within 7 days after:

(a) the dental care provider is convicted of an offence or made the subject of a sex/violence criminal finding for an offence, in this State or elsewhere, giving details of the conviction or criminal finding and any penalty imposed for the offence, or

(b) criminal proceedings are commenced against the dental care provider, in this State or elsewhere, in respect of a sex/violence offence alleged to have been committed in the course of the practice or purported practice of dentistry, or the carrying out or purported carrying out of dental auxiliary activities, or

(c) criminal proceedings are commenced against the dental care provider, in this State or elsewhere, in respect of a sex/violence offence alleged to have been committed against a minor or to involve child pornography (whether or not alleged to have been committed in the course of the practice or purported practice of dentistry, or the carrying out or purported carrying out of dental auxiliary activities).

(2) The regulations may provide that subsection (1) (a) does not apply in respect of particular offences.