New South Wales Consolidated Acts

DENTAL TECHNICIANS REGISTRATION ACT 1975 - SECT 4

4 Application of Act

(1) This Act does not apply to or in respect of any legally qualified medical practitioner, any dentist or any person carrying out technical work under the supervision of such a medical practitioner or a dentist at a university, school, college or hospital in New South Wales as part of a course leading to a degree in medicine, surgery or dental surgery.

(2) After the day that is two years after the appointed day:

(a) sections 25 and 26 of the Apprentices Act 1969 do not apply to the training in technical work of a person desirous of becoming a dental technician, and

(b) neither the Director nor an apprenticeship committee shall approve of an application for the establishment of an apprenticeship in technical work.

(3) After the day that is six years after the appointed day, no provision of the Apprentices Act 1969 applies to the training in technical work of a person desirous of becoming a dental technician.