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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2001 Week 8 Hansard (9 August) . . Page.. 2952 ..

Dental Board of the ACT

Established under: Dentists Act 1931

Date established: 1931

Terms of operation: Health Professions Boards (Procedures) Act 1981

Reports to:

Minister for Health, Housing and Community Services

Terms of Reference

To administer the Dentists Act 1931 and:

register suitably qualified dentists, dental specialists and dental hygienists to enable them to practise in the ACT;

discipline registered dentists, dental specialists and dental hygienists, after due inquiry on specific grounds through suspension/cancellation of registration cautioning or reprimanding the person, ordering the practitioner to seek or undergo medical or psychiatric treatment or counselling, or imposing on the practitioners registration such conditions relating to the practise of dentistry, requiring the practitioner to complete specified educational courses or order that the practitioner seek and follow advice, in relation to his or her practise , from persons specified by the Board as it considers appropriate;

consider complaints against registered dentists, specialist dentists or dental hygienists;

general monitoring of the conduct of the profession in the ACT.

The Board is comprised of a Chairperson, three members appointed by the Minister in accordance with the Health Professions Boards (Procedures) Act 1981, and three members elected by the profession in accordance with the Health Professions Boards (Elections) Act 1980 giving a total of 7 on the Board.

Membership

Member Position Remuneration

(include title) (eg Chair, Member)

Dr Brian Mor, BDS, MDS, Chair Nil

FICD

Dr Carmelo Bonnano, BDS Member Nil

Dr Amanda McKeown, BDS Member Nil

Dr Desmond Storey, BDS Member Nil

Mr David Trigger, BDS Member Nil

Dr Stephen Dahlstrom, BDS Deputy Chair Nil

Dr Peter Walmsley, BDS, MDS Member Nil

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