New South Wales Consolidated Acts

DENTAL TECHNICIANS REGISTRATION ACT 1975 - SECT 15

15 Qualifications for registration

(1) A person who makes application for registration as a dental technician in the prescribed manner and proves to the satisfaction of the board that the person is of good character and has attained the age of eighteen years is entitled to be registered as a dental technician if:

(a) the person has, in the opinion of the board, satisfactorily completed a course of training, approved by the board, in technical work,

(b) the person establishes to the satisfaction of the board that the person has, within the period of ten years immediately preceding the day on which the person applies for registration, been bona fide engaged in carrying out technical work in New South Wales for a period of not less than four years, or

(c) not being a person referred to in paragraph (a) or (b), the person has, in the opinion of the board, satisfactorily completed any examination in technical work arranged by the board for the purpose of determining the person’s knowledge of and skill in carrying out technical work and demonstrated the person’s ability satisfactorily to carry out technical work in New South Wales.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1) (b), a period during which a person has been engaged in training in technical work in New South Wales as an apprentice is a period during which that person has been bona fide engaged in carrying out technical work.

(3) A person is not entitled to become registered pursuant to subsection (1) (b) after a day that is six years after the appointed day.

(4) Subsection (3) does not apply to a person who has previously been registered as a dental technician and who pays a restoration fee within five years after the day on which the person ceases to be registered as a dental technician or last ceased to be so registered, as the case may be.

(5) Where:

(a) a person is entitled to be registered as a dental technician, the person shall be so registered on payment of the prescribed fee, or

(b) the board is not satisfied as to the matters specified in subsection (1) it shall refuse the application for registration and the secretary shall give the person who has applied for registration as a dental technician notice of that refusal in accordance with section 29 (1).

(6) If the board does not, within sixty days after the receipt by it of an application by a person for registration as a dental technician, give notice to the person applying for registration of the result of the application the secretary shall be deemed to have given that person a notice that the board has refused to direct that the person be registered as a dental technician.