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Dental Regulations 1970

NIUE LAWS
LEGISLATION AS AT DECEMBER 2006

DENTAL REGULATIONS 1970

1970 – 25 May 1970

1 Title

These are the Dental Regulations 1970.

2 Meaning of "practice of dentistry"

In these regulations, "the practice of dentistry" includes –

(a) The performance of any operation, and the treatment of any diseases, deficiencies, or lesions, on or of the human teeth or jaws, and the correction of malpositions thereof and the performance of radiographic work in connection with the human teeth or jaws;

(b) The giving of any anaesthetic in connection with any operation on the human teeth or jaws;

(c) The mechanical construction or the renewal of artificial dentures or restorative dental appliances;

(d) The performance of any operation 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, insertion, fixing, constructing, repairing, or renewing of artificial dentures or restorative dental appliances;

(e) The performance of any such operation and the giving of any such treatment, advice, or attendance as is usually performed or given by registered dentist.

3 Practice of dentistry

(1) No person shall practise dentistry in Niue or hold himself out, whether directly or by implication, as practising or being entitled to practise dentistry in Niue, unless he is registered in New Zealand as a dentist.

(2) Notwithstanding anything in paragraph (1) –

(a) A graduate in dentistry of the Fiji School of Medicine, or any person who has such knowledge of and training in dentistry as are in the opinion of Cabinet equal to that of such a graduate, may practise dentistry in Niue as an employee of the Niue Public Service subject to the general control of the Chief Medical Officer;

(b) A medical officer and any other person qualified to practise medicine or surgery in Niue may perform any dental operation, or do any other act that is within the meaning of "the practice of dentistry", in the ordinary course of practice as such or in any case where the services of a person qualified to practise dentistry in Niue are not obtainable;

(c) Any person may extract a tooth where the case is urgent and no person qualified to practise dentistry in Niue and no person referred to in subparagraph (b) and (c) is available, provided the operation is performed without the application of any general or local anaesthetic;

(d) Any person acting under the direction of a person entitled to practise dentistry in Niue may construct or renew artificial dentures or restorative dental appliances.

(3) Every person commits an offence who does any act in contravention of this regulation, and is liable to a fine not exceeding 0.5 penalty units and in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding 0.5 penalty units for every day on which the offence has occurred.