Section 38

Notwithstanding subsection (1), where the dental practitioner or the dental therapist applies for an annual practising certificate for the first time, such application may be made at any time during the year, and the applicant shall be granted an annual practising certificate for the remainder of the year in which the application is made.

The annual practising certificate shall be in force until thirty-first December of the year in which it is issued.

Any dental practitioner or dental therapist who fails to apply for the annual practising certificate in accordance with this Chapter shall be deemed to be suspended from the date the current annual practising certificate lapses.

No annual practising certificate may be issued to a dentist unless a report on the inspection of the healthcare facility, in the prescribed form, has been received by the Dental Registrar, during the preceding twelve months, to the effect that the healthcare facility and conditions of practice of that dentist are satisfactory.