Dentists Act 1999 - Singapore Statutes Online

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1 Short title and commencement

3 Establishment of Dental Council

4 Functions of Council

6 President of Council

7 Disqualifications for membership of Council

8 Filling of vacancies

9 Meetings and quorum of Council

10 Appointment of executive secretary and other employees

11 Appointment of committees

13 Dentists register

14 Persons entitled to be registered as dentists

15 Application for registration

16 Certificate of registration

17 Practising certificate

18 Publication of list of registered dentists with practising certificates

19 Certificate of Registrar

20 Correction of register

21 Removal of name from register

22 Prohibition of practice of dentistry except by registered dentist with practising certificate

23 Liability of employer, etc., for practice of dentistry in contravention of section 22

24 Liability of registered dentist for allowing another to act in contravention of section 22, etc.

25 Suspended persons not to practise dentistry during period of suspension

26 Pretending to be or taking or using the name or title of dentist

27 Fraudulent registration, etc.

30 Certificate of registration and practising certificate to be exhibited

31 Use of qualification and title

32 Certain registered dentists not to perform prescribed procedures

33 Complaint against registered dentist

34 Appointment of Complaints Panel

35 Appointment of Complaints Committee

36 Proceedings of Complaints Committee

37 Powers of Complaints Committee

38 Findings of Complaints Committee

39 Decision of Council

40 Appointment of Disciplinary Committee

42 Registered dentist to be notified of inquiry

43 Procedure of Disciplinary Committee

44 Findings of Disciplinary Committee

46 Reference and transfer of cases to Health Committee

47 Appeal against order by Disciplinary Committee

49 Unfitness to practise through illness, etc.

50 Where Council member is in public service

51 Service of documents

52 Conviction final and conclusive

53 Restoration of names to register

55 Fees payable for members of Council and members of committees

57 Assessor to Council

58 No action against Council, etc., in absence of bad faith

59 Exemption in respect of persons in public service and prescribed companies or organisations

60 Exemption in respect of medical practitioners

61 Exemption in respect of dental training

62 Power of Council to make regulations

64 Dental Board members to serve as Council members until establishment of Council

65 Persons who are already registered under repealed Act

66 Saving of certificates of registration and annual practising certificates issued under repealed Act

67 Pending disciplinary proceedings

68 Further transitional provisions

69 Consequential amendments to other written laws

REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE

ACTS SUPPLEMENT

Published by Authority

NO. 36]

Friday, October 1

[1999

The following Act was passed by Parliament on 6th July 1999 and assented to by the President on 13th July 1999:—

Dentists Act 1999

(No. 24 of 1999)

I assent.

ONG TENG CHEONG,

President.

13th July 1999.

Date of Commencement: 15th October 1999

An Act to establish the Dental Council, to provide for the registration of dentists and for matters connected therewith, to repeal the Dentists Act (Chapter 76 of the 1985 Revised Edition) and to make consequential amendments to other written law.

Be it enacted by the President with the advice and consent of the Parliament of Singapore, as follows:

PART I

PRELIMINARY

Short title and commencement

1. This Act may be cited as the Dentists Act 1999 and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint.

Interpretation

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —

“certificate of registration” means a certificate of registration issued under section 16;

“Complaints Committee” means a Complaints Committee appointed under section 35;

“Council” means the Dental Council established under section 3;

“Disciplinary Committee” means a Disciplinary Committee appointed under section 40;

“Health Committee” means the Health Committee appointed under section 48;

“practice of dentistry” includes —

(a)	the performance of any operation and the treatment of any diseases, deficiencies, deformities or lesions on or of the human teeth or jaws or associated structures, whether intraorally or extraorally;
(b)	the correction of malpositions of the human teeth or jaws or associated structures;
(c)	the performance of radiographic work in connection with the human teeth or jaws or associated structures;
(d)	the administration of an anaesthetic agent in connection with any operation on the human teeth or jaws or associated structures;
(e)	the mechanical construction or the renewal or repair of dentures or restorative dental appliances;
(f)	the performance of any operation on, or the giving of any treatment, advice or attendance to any person, as preparatory to, or for the purpose of or for or in connection with, the fitting, inserting, fixing, constructing, repairing or renewing of dentures or restorative dental appliances; and
(g)	the performance of any such operation and the giving of any such treatment, advice or attendance as is usually performed or given by dentists,

and the expression “practise dentistry” has a corresponding meaning;

“practising certificate” means a practising certificate granted under section 17;

“register” means the dentists register kept under section 13;

“registered dentist” means a person who is registered as a dentist under this Act and includes a person deemed to be a registered dentist under section 65(1), and “registered as a dentist” and “registration as a dentist” have corresponding meanings;

“Registrar” means the Registrar appointed under section 12;

“repealed Act” means the Dentists Act (Cap. 76) repealed by this Act.

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