Dental Registration Act
(Chapter 76, Section 62)
Dental Registration Regulations
Rg 1
G.N. No. S 454/1999

REVISED EDITION 2009
(31st August 2009)
[15th October 1999]
PART I
PRELIMINARY
Citation
1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Dental Registration Regulations.
Definitions
2.—(1)  In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —
“Accreditation Board” means the Dental Specialists Accreditation Board established under section 32A of the Act;
“Complaints Committee” means a committee appointed under section 34(5) of the Act;
“Council’s solicitor” means an advocate and solicitor appointed under section 49J of the Act;
“Disciplinary Committee” means a Disciplinary Committee appointed under section 37(1) of the Act;
“elected members”, in relation to the Council, means the members of the Council referred to in section 3(2)(f) of the Act;
“Interim Orders Committee” means an Interim Orders Committee appointed in accordance with section 49B of the Act;
“legal assessor” means an assessor appointed under section 57 of the Act;
“medical assessor” means an assessor appointed under section 48(6) of the Act;
“medical practitioner” means a person registered under the Medical Registration Act (Cap. 174);
“registered person” means a person who is registered under Part III of the Act for the carrying out of any practice of dentistry;
“relevant dentist” means a registered dentist whose name appears in the first division of the Register of Dentists.
(2)  Any reference to a registered person, in relation to an inquiry by a Disciplinary Committee or a Health Committee, is a reference to the registered person to whom the inquiry relates.
(3)  The forms mentioned in these Regulations are those set out in the First Schedule.