New South Wales Consolidated Acts

DENTAL TECHNICIANS REGISTRATION ACT 1975 - SECT 5

5 Definitions

(1) In this Act, except in so far as the context or subject-matter otherwise indicates or requires:
"appointed day" means the day appointed by the Governor under section 2 (3).
"artificial denture" does not include:

(a) a fixed bridge,

(b) an artificial denture:

(i) of which an intracoronal retainer forms a part,

(ii) to which an intracoronal retainer is attached, or

(iii) which is combined with an obturator, or

(c) any prescribed dental appliance.

"board" means the Dental Technicians Registration Board constituted under section 6 (1).
"Commission" means the Health Care Complaints Commission constituted under the Health Care Complaints Act 1993 .
"Corporation" means the Health Administration Corporation constituted by the Health Administration Act 1982 .
"dental prosthetist" means a dental technician to whom a practising certificate has been granted.
"dental technician" means person registered as a dental technician under this Act.
"fitting", in relation to an artificial denture, includes taking an impression or making a measurement for the purpose of inserting, constructing, repairing or renewing the artificial denture.
"health registration Act" has the same meaning as in the Health Care Complaints Act 1993 .
"health service" has the same meaning as in the Health Care Complaints Act 1993 .
"index" means the Index of Dental Prosthetists of New South Wales referred to in section 18A.
"inspector" means a person 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 and who is appointed as an inspector for the purposes of this Act.
"member" means member of the board.
"practising certificate" means a practising certificate granted under section 18B that is in force.
"prohibition order" has the same meaning as in section 19B.
"register" means the Register of Dental Technicians of New South Wales kept by the board under section 14.
"regulations" means regulations made under this Act.
"secretary" means the secretary of the board holding office as such under Chapter 1A of the Public Sector Employment and Management Act 2002 .
"technical work" means the mechanical construction or the renewal or repair of artificial dentures or restorative dental appliances.

(2) For the purposes of the constitution of the first Dental Technicians Registration Board, a reference in section 6 (1) to a dental technician is a reference to a person who, in the opinion of the Minister, is a person likely to be able to satisfy the requirements of the board in respect of the person’s qualifications for registration under this Act.

(3) For the purposes of this Act, the practice of dental prosthetics means:

(a) the giving of any advice to or the attendance upon any person as preparatory to, or for the purpose of, or for or in connection with, the fitting, inserting, constructing, repairing or renewing of artificial dentures or mouthguards,

(b) the constructing, repairing or renewing by a person of artificial dentures or mouthguards in connection with the performance by that person of any functions referred to in paragraph (a) or (c), and

(c) the inserting or fitting of artificial dentures or mouthguards in healthy human mouths,

but does not include the inserting or fitting of an artificial denture or mouthguard where, in the proper practice of dentistry, it could be reasonably foreseen, before any such work is commenced, that an adjustment of natural teeth or the jaw would be, or is, required for the purpose of:

(d) balancing the occlusion of natural teeth and the artificial denture or mouthguard, or

(e) preparing natural teeth or the jaw for the insertion of the artificial denture or mouthguard.

(4) For the purposes of subsection (3) (c) a human mouth is not healthy if:

(a) the jaws are apparently damaged and not completely healed or are apparently diseased,

(b) it contains any soft tissue that is apparently damaged and not completely healed or is apparently diseased, or

(c) it contains any teeth that are apparently carious, are apparently damaged and not completely repaired or are apparently diseased.

(5) Notes included in this Act do not form part of this Act.