AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

DENTAL REGULATIONS (REPEAL)

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

No. 17 of 1984

The repeal of the Dental Regulations is part of the final stages in the review of the Dentists Registration Ordinance, 1931.  The repeal is in accord with the standard approach in A.C.T. health professions registration legislation.

The substance of the regulations is carried out by the Dentists Registration (Amendment) Ordinance, 1984, in that the fees which were prescribed by regulation are now to be determined by the Minister for Health by written notice published in the Gazette pursuant to new section 41 of the Dentists Registration Ordinance, 1931 and because advertising by dentists is now completely regulated within the confines of the recently amended section 30 of the Dentists Registration Ordinance, 1931.  The change in relation to the method of prescribing fees was made possible by an amendment in 1982 to the Seat of Government (Administration) Act, 1910, which aimed at reducing the work load of the legislative draftsman.