Acts Online
GT Shield

Dental Technicians Act, 1979 (Act No. 19 of 1979)

Chapter 2 : Education, Training and Registration of Dental Technicians and Dental Technologists

20. Keeping of registers

 

(1) The council shall keep separate registers in respect of dental technicians, dental technologists, student dental technicians and student dental technologists, and shall enter in the appropriate register the prescribed particulars of every person whose application is granted under section 18 or 19.

 

(2) The council shall keep the registers correctly and in accordance with the provisions of this Act, and shall remove therefrom the names of all registered persons in terms of section 24 and shall from time to time effect the necessary alterations in the names and addresses or qualifications of registered persons.

 

(3) Any registered person who changes his or her name or address shall in writing notify the registrar thereof within thirty days after such change.

 

(4)
(a) No qualification shall be entered in the register in respect of any person if the council is satisfied that such person does not hold such qualification.
(b) Any registration which is proved to the satisfaction of the council to have been made in error or as a result of misrepresentation or in circumstances not authorized by this Act, may be removed from the register, and an entry of the reason for such removal shall be made in the register.
(c) The person whose registration is removed from the register in terms of paragraph (b), shall be notified thereof in accordance with the provisions of section 24(2).
(d) Any certificate issued in respect of the registration in question shall be deemed to be cancelled as from the date on which notice is so given.