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

Chapter 3 : Offences and the Control Over Artificial Teeth

32A. Performance of certain acts or carrying on of certain business by partnership, association or juristic person

 

(1) The performance of any act specially pertaining to the profession of dental technician or dental technologist, as the case may be, may be carried on in partnership: Provided that all members of such partnership shall be either dentists or clinical dental technologists on the one hand, or dental technicians or dental technologists or both, on the other hand.

 

(2) The performance of any act specially pertaining to the profession of dental technician or dental technologist, as the case may be, may be carried on in association: Provided that—
(a) written proof of the formation of the association, including the names of all associates, shall be submitted to the council together with the application for registration of the dental laboratory;
(b) the associates shall annually before 31 March submit an affidavit to the council confirming the continued existence of the association and re-stating the names of all associates;
(c) in the case of an association of dentists or clinical dental technologists conducting a dental laboratory, only work for the patients of that association shall be done in that laboratory;
(d) all the associates practise their profession and operate the laboratory on the same premises:

Provided further that all members of such association shall be either dentists or clinical dental technologists on the one hand, or dental technicians or dental technologists or both, on the other hand.

 

(3)
(a) Subject to paragraph (b), a juristic person being an incorporated company or a close corporation may carry on any business involving the performance of any act specially pertaining to the profession of dental technician or dental technologist, as the case may be, as long as all the members of such juristic person are either dentists or clinical dental technologists on the one hand, or dental technicians or dental technologists or both, on the other hand.
(b) If the members of such juristic person are dentists or clinical dental technologists conducting a dental laboratory, they may only perform work in the laboratory for patients of that juristic person and all the members of the juristic person shall practise their profession and conduct the laboratory on the same premises.