Clause 38
Miscellaneous amendments
The Dentists Act is amended ––
by deleting the words “Dental Council” in the following provisions and substituting in each case the words “Singapore Dental Council”:Long title, sections 2 (definition of “President”) and 3(1) and the section heading;
by inserting, immediately after the word “dentists” in the following provisions, the words “and oral health therapists”:Long title and section 62(2)(b);
by deleting the words “DENTAL COUNCIL” in the heading to Part II and substituting the words “SINGAPORE DENTAL COUNCIL”;
by inserting, immediately after the words “a dentist” in the following provisions, the words “or an oral health therapist”:Sections 4(a), 25(1), 27(a), 29(1) and 49(1)(b) and (c) and (7);
by inserting, immediately after the words “registered dentists” in the following provisions, the words “and registered oral health therapists”:Sections 4(b), (d) and (e) and 62(2)(f);
by inserting, immediately after the words “registered dentist” wherever they appear in the following provisions, the words “or registered oral health therapist”:Sections 7(b), 24(1), (2) and (4) and the section heading and 49(1), (2) and (5);
by deleting the word “register” wherever it appears in the following provisions and substituting in each case the words “appropriate register”:Sections 17(8), 19, 20(1)(a), (b), (c) and (d) and the section heading, 21 (section heading), 27(b), 49(1)(d) and (7), 53(2) and the section heading and 62(2)(c) and (g); and
by deleting the word “register” in the following provisions and substituting in each case the words “Register of Dentists”:Sections 31(1), (2) and (3) and 61(b).