Dental Registration Act 1999 · 2022 Revised Edition · Part 4 · Practice of Dentistry
36. Recovery of fees
Feedback & supportSubject to the provisions of this Act, a person is not entitled to demand, claim, accept, receive, retain or sue for or recover any fee or charge in any court for the carrying out of any act within the practice of dentistry unless, at the time of carrying out the act, the person is registered as a dentist or an oral health therapist under this Act and has in force a practising certificate.
practice of dentistry
“practice of dentistry” includes —(a)the performance of any procedure and the treatment of any disease, deficiency, deformity, malposition or lesion on or of the human teeth or jaws or associated structures, whether intraorally or extraorally;(b)the performance of radiographic work in connection with the human teeth or jaws or associated structures;(c)the administration of an anaesthetic agent in connection with any procedure on the human teeth or jaws or associated structures;(d)the performance of any procedure 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 dental appliances; and(e)the performance of any such procedure and the giving of any such treatment, advice or attendance as is usually performed or given by dentists;
This section does not apply to any medical practitioner registered under the Medical Registration Act 1997.[29