Singapore legislation

Clause 6

of Dentists Registration (Amendment) Bill

Clause 6

Amendment of section 8

Section 8 of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting immediately after subsection (2) thereof the following subsection: —“(3) For the purposes of subsection (1) of this section —

(a)

where a person uses any dental instrument or material which is used in the practice of dentistry, he shall be deemed, unless the contrary is proved, to practise dentistry; and

(b)

where a person has in his possession any one or more of the following instruments or equipment, that is to say, a dental chair, a dental spittoon, a dental engine, a dental syringe or a dental forceps, he shall be deemed unless the contrary is proved, to practise dentistry.”.