Dental Registration Act 1999 · 2022 Revised Edition · Part 4 · Practice of Dentistry
34. Fraudulent registration, etc.
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procures or attempts to procure registration as a dentist or an oral health therapist under this Act, a certificate of registration or a practising certificate, by knowingly making or producing or causing to be made or produced any false or fraudulent declaration, certificate, application or representation, whether in writing or otherwise;
certificate of registration
“certificate of registration” means a certificate of registration issued under section 16 or 24;
wilfully makes or causes to be made any false entry in the appropriate register;
appropriate register
“appropriate register” means any of the registers mentioned in section 13(1), as appropriate;
forges or alters a certificate of registration or a practising certificate;
practising certificate
“practising certificate” means a practising certificate granted under section 17 or 25;
fraudulently or dishonestly uses as genuine a certificate of registration or a practising certificate which he or she knows or has reason to believe is forged or altered; or
buys, sells or fraudulently obtains a certificate of registration or a practising certificate,shall be guilty of an offence.[27