New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HEALTH PRACTITIONER REGULATION NATIONAL LAW (NSW) - SECT 121

121 Restricted dental acts

(1) A person must not carry out a restricted dental act unless the person--

(a) is registered in the dental profession or medical profession and carries out the restricted dental act in accordance with any requirements specified in an approved registration standard; or

(b) is a student who carries out the restricted dental act in the course of activities undertaken as part of--

(i) an approved program of study for the dental profession or medical profession; or

(ii) clinical training in the dental profession or medical profession; or

(c) carries out the restricted dental act in the course of carrying out technical work on the written order of a person registered in the dentists or dental prosthetists division of the dental profession; or

(d) is a person, or a member of a class of persons, prescribed under a regulation as being authorised to carry out the restricted dental act or restricted dental acts generally.

: Maximum penalty--$60,000 or 3 years imprisonment or both.

(2) In this section--

"restricted dental act" means any of the following acts--

(a) performing any irreversible procedure on the human teeth or jaw or associated structures;

(b) correcting malpositions of the human teeth or jaw or associated structures;

(c) fitting or intra-orally adjusting artificial teeth or corrective or restorative dental appliances for a person;

(d) performing any irreversible procedure on, or the giving of any treatment or advice to, a person that is preparatory to or for the purpose of fitting, inserting, adjusting, fixing, constructing, repairing or renewing artificial dentures or a restorative dental appliance.

"technical work" means the mechanical construction or the renewal or repair of artificial dentures or restorative dental appliances.