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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 13 Hansard (4 December) . . Page.. 4666 ..

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Mr Speaker,

The Dental Technicians and Dental Prosthetists Registration (Amendment) Bill (No.2) 1997 seeks to amend the Dental Technicians and Dental Prosthetists Registration Act 1988.

The Act is a stand alone piece of health profession registration legislation.

The proposed amendments provide for the remuneration of members who participate in Board Inquiries.

The proposed amendments will ensure that the Act is consistent with the proposed amendments to the Health Professions Boards (Procedures) Act which covers all other health profession registration Boards.

Inquiries can take weeks for resolution and it is difficult to ensure members are available given their commitments to their practice or employment.

Remuneration of members of the Board who take on the responsibility of sitting of Board Inquires provides some recognition by Government of the importance and inconvenience of the task.

Since the commencement of the Act in 1988, the Dental Technicians and Dental Prosthetists Registration Board have not had to conduct a single Inquiry or investigation into the conduct of a person registered under the Act.

Despite this, it is important that the procedures governing all health profession registration boards are consistent.

This Bill ensures that consistency.

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