Singapore legislation

Clause 40

Transitional and savings provisions

(1)

This Act shall not apply to any inquiry, investigation or other proceedings of a disciplinary nature commenced before the appointed day and the provisions of the Dentists Act and the regulations made thereunder in force immediately before that day shall continue to apply to that inquiry, investigation or proceedings as if this Act had not been enacted.

(2)

The change of the name of the Dental Council to the Singapore Dental Council under this Act shall not —

(a)

operate to create a new legal entity;

(b)

prejudice or affect the identity of the body corporate constituted by the Council or its continuity as a body corporate;

(c)

affect the exercise of any right, or the enforcement of any obligation by or against the Council, or any other person; or

(d)

render defective any legal proceedings by or against the Council,and any legal proceedings that might have been continued or started by or against it by its former name may be continued or started by or against it by its new name “Singapore Dental Council”.

(3)

Any contract, arrangement or other transaction purporting to be entered into by the Dental Council, or by any person on behalf of the Council, prior to the appointed day shall bind the Council as if the Council had been a party to the contract, arrangement or transaction, as the case may be.

(4)

Any order, ruling or direction made or given by the Dental Council under the Dentists Act in force immediately before the appointed day shall be treated as an order, a ruling or a direction under this Act and shall have the same force and effect as if it had been made or given by the Singapore Dental Council under the powers vested in the Singapore Dental Council under this Act.

(5)

Any person who holds office as a member of the Dental Council immediately before the appointed day shall continue to be a member of the Singapore Dental Council subject to the same terms and conditions which were in force immediately before that day.

(6)

Every person who is registered under the provisions of the Dentists Act in force immediately before the appointed day shall as from that day be deemed to be a registered dentist under the provisions of this Act and the Registrar shall —

(a)

transfer to the first division of the Register of Dentists —

(i)

under Part I, the names, addresses, qualifications and other particulars of all dentists registered under section 14(1)(a) of the Dentists Act in force immediately before the appointed day which appear, immediately before that day, in the register kept under that Act; and

(ii)

under Part II, the names, addresses, qualifications and other particulars of all dentists conditionally registered under section 14(1)(b), (c) and (d) of the Dentists Act in force immediately before the appointed day which appear, immediately before that day, in the register kept under that Act;

(b)

transfer to the second division of the Register of Dentists the names, addresses, qualifications and other particulars of all dentists which appear, immediately before the appointed day, in the second division of the register kept under the Dentists Act in force immediately before that day; and

(c)

transfer to the Register of Temporarily Registered Dentists the names, addresses, qualifications and other particulars of dentists registered for a limited period which appear, immediately before the appointed day, in the first division of the register kept under the Dentists Act in force immediately before that day.

(7)

Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, a person who, immediately before the appointed day, was practising dentistry as an oral health therapist shall be entitled to carry on as such —

(a)

for a period of 6 months (or such further period as the Minister may specify) from the appointed day; and

(b)

if before the expiration of that period the person applies for a practising certificate, until the practising certificate is granted or finally refused or the application is withdrawn.

(8)

Any reference in any written law or document to the Dental Council and to the Dentists Act shall be read as a reference to the Singapore Dental Council and the Dental Registration Act, respectively.

(9)

Nothing in this section shall be taken as prejudicing section 16 of the Interpretation Act (Cap. 1).

(10)

In this section, “appointed day” means the date of commencement of this Act.

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