New South Wales Consolidated Acts

DENTAL TECHNICIANS REGISTRATION ACT 1975 - SECT 19

19 Proceedings before board against dental technician

(1) Where the board is satisfied after inquiry under section 20, or after the investigation by the Commission under the Health Care Complaints Act 1993 of a complaint of which the Commission is notified under section 20A, that a dental technician, whether or not the dental technician is a dental prosthetist:

(a) has been convicted in New South Wales or elsewhere by any court of any offence,

(b) has been guilty of habitual drunkenness or of addiction to any deleterious drug,

(c) is not of good character, or

(d) is, by reason of infirmity, injury or illness, whether mental or physical, unfit to carry out technical work,

it may by order:

(e) reprimand or caution that dental technician,

(f) suspend the dental technician’s registration for such period, not exceeding 12 months, as it thinks fit, or

(g) direct that the dental technician’s name be removed from the register,

and shall, where it is satisfied after inquiry that the dental technician is, by reason of some act or omission in connection with the dental technician’s work as a dental technician, unfit to carry out technical work, by order direct that the dental technician’s name be removed from the register.

(2) Where the board directs that the name of a dental technician be removed from the register it may in its order fix a time after which the person whose name is so removed may apply for restoration of the person’s name to the register and, notwithstanding section 15, that person may not make application for registration as a dental technician before that time unless the board before that time directs that the person may make such an application.

(3) The board shall not make an order directing that a dental technician be suspended from registration or that the dental technician’s name be removed from the register because of a conviction referred to in subsection (1) (a) where it is satisfied that, whether from its trivial nature or from the circumstances in which it occurred or for any other reason, the offence does not in the public interest disqualify the dental technician from carrying out technical work.

(4) An order made by the board under subsection (1) shall not take effect until the expiration of a period of twenty-one days after notice of the making of the order is given to the dental technician by the secretary in accordance with section 29 (1).

(5) The registration of a dental technician is not in force during any period for which it has been suspended and, notwithstanding section 15, a person may not make application for registration as a dental technician while the person’s registration is suspended.