New South Wales Consolidated Acts

DENTAL TECHNICIANS REGISTRATION ACT 1975 - SECT 25

25 Power of entry of inspectors

(1) For the purpose of ascertaining:

(a) whether any of the provisions of this Act or of the regulations has been or is being contravened by a dental technician, whether or not the dental technician is a dental prosthetist,

(b) whether a dental technician, whether or not the dental technician is a dental prosthetist, 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, or

(c) whether a dental prosthetist has been guilty of misconduct in respect of which the board, if satisfied it occurred, could make an order under section 19A (1),

an inspector may at any reasonable time enter any premises which a dental technician uses in connection with technical work or which a dental prosthetist uses in connection with the practice of dental prosthetics and may make such inquiries therein as the inspector thinks fit.

(2) An inspector may apply to an authorised officer for a search warrant if the inspector has reasonable grounds for believing that a provision of this Act or the regulations has been or is being contravened in any premises.

(2A) An authorised officer to whom an application is made under subsection (2) may, if satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for doing so, issue a search warrant authorising an inspector named in the warrant:

(a) to enter the premises, and

(b) to make such inquiries in the premises as the inspector thinks fit.

(2B) Division 4 of Part 5 of the Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002 applies to a search warrant issued under this section.

(3) A person who wilfully delays or obstructs an inspector in the exercise of the inspector’s powers under this section is guilty of an offence.

(4) In this section:
"authorised officer" has the same meaning as it has in the Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002 .