Singapore legislation
Regulation 29
Regulation 29
Invitation to submit to medical examination
Subregulation 1
Where any complaint or information laid before a Complaints Committee under section 44(8) of the Act touches upon the physical or mental fitness of a registered person to practise dentistry, the chairman of the Complaints Committee may send a notice in writing to the registered person —
inviting him to agree within 14 days to an examination by at least 2 medical practitioners to be appointed by the Complaints Committee and to the medical practitioners furnishing to the Complaints Committee reports on his fitness to practise dentistry; or
if the information received by the Complaints Committee includes reports on the registered person by medical practitioners who have recently examined him, and it appears to the Complaints Committee that the reports afford sufficient medical evidence that the registered person’s fitness to practise dentistry may be impaired by reason of a physical or mental condition, so informing him.
Subregulation 2
The Complaints Committee shall, in the notice referred to in paragraph (1) —
inform the registered person that he may nominate not more than 2 medical practitioners to examine him and report to the Complaints Committee on his fitness to practise at his own expense; and
invite the registered person to submit any observations or other evidence which he may wish to offer as to his own fitness to practise.
Subregulation 3
Subject to section 45(5) of the Act, the chairman of the Complaints Committee shall forward to the registered person copies of the complaint or information, and any statutory declaration or affidavit made in support of the complaint or information, together with the notice referred to in paragraph (1).
Subregulation 4
If the registered person —
refuses to be examined;
having agreed to a medical examination, fails to submit to the medical examination when it has been arranged by the Complaints Committee;
in the case of medical examination by a medical practitioner nominated under paragraph (2)(a), fails to submit himself to the medical examination within 30 days of the despatch of the notice referred to in paragraph (1), or such further period as the Complaints Committee may allow; or
does not reply to the Complaints Committee within 14 days of the despatch of the notice referred to in paragraph (1), or such further period as the Complaints Committee may allow,the Complaints Committee may forthwith proceed with its inquiry and make such order as it thinks fit under section 46 of the Act.