New South Wales Consolidated Acts

DENTAL TECHNICIANS REGISTRATION ACT 1975 - SECT 13

13 Functions and duties of the board

(1) The functions and duties of the board are to do all acts and exercise or perform all powers necessary for carrying the provisions of this Act into effect.

(2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the board may:

(a) for the purposes of sections 15 (1) (a) and 18B (1) (a), approve courses of training, whether conducted or to be conducted within New South Wales or elsewhere,

(b) recommend the standards to be achieved in the examinations to be completed by persons undertaking the courses of training referred to in paragraph (a),

(c) arrange examinations for the purposes of sections 15 (1) (c) and 18B (1) (b),

(d) promote the establishment in New South Wales of courses of training for persons desirous of becoming dental technicians,

(e) order the registration of persons as dental technicians, suspend or cancel the registration of persons so registered, annul any such suspension or cancellation and order the restoration to the register of the name of a person who was formerly a dental technician, and

(f) approve, in such cases as it sees fit, of the carrying out by a person who has applied for registration under section 15 (1) (c) but who has failed, upon examination arranged under paragraph (c), to satisfy the board as to the matters specified in section 15 (1) (c), of technical work for a period, and under the supervision of a person, specified in the approval and revoke, alter or vary any such approval.

(3) An approval under subsection (2) (f) shall operate for a period not exceeding two years.

(4) The board cannot employ any staff.

Note: Staff may be employed under Chapter 1A of the Public Sector Employment and Management Act 2002 in the Government Service to enable the board to exercise its functions.