Northern Territory Repealed Regulations

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PUBLIC HEALTH (MEDICAL AND DENTAL INSPECTION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN) REGULATIONS

NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA

PUBLIC HEALTH (MEDICAL AND DENTAL INSPECTION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN) REGULATIONS

As in force at 1 July 2011

Table of provisions

NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA

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This reprint shows the Regulations as in force at 1 July 2011. Any amendments that commence after that date are not included.

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PUBLIC HEALTH (MEDICAL AND DENTAL INSPECTION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN) REGULATIONS

Regulations under the Public and Environmental Health Act

1. Citation

These Regulations may be cited as the Public Health (Medical and Dental Inspection of School Children) Regulations.

1. Interpretation

In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appear:

authorized means authorized by the Chief Health Officer;

dental therapist means a person registered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law to practise the health profession of:

(a) to practise in the dental profession as a dental therapist (other than as a student); and

(b) in the dental therapists division of that profession.

dentist means a person registered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law:

(a) to practise in the dental profession as a dentist (other than as a student); and

(b) in the dentists division of that profession.

nurse means a person registered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law to practise in the nursing and midwifery profession as a nurse (other than as a student).

school means any premises in or upon which children or other persons are assembled for the purpose of instruction.

1. Medical examination

(1) An authorized medical practitioner may examine medically and physically a child attending a school, and the child shall submit to, and the parents or guardians of the child shall permit, any medical examination deemed necessary by the medical practitioner .

(2) An authorized medical practitioner shall carry out the medical and physical examination of every child attending a school and record the results in accordance with Form 1 in the Schedule.

1. Dental examination

(1) An authorized dentist or authorized dental therapist may examine the teeth of a child attending a school and the child shall submit to, and the parent or guardian of the child shall permit, the examination.

(2) An authorized dentist or authorized dental therapist shall carry on the dental examination of a child in conformity with a schedule, prescribed by the Chief Health Officer in accordance with Form 2 in the Schedule.

(3) A record of the results of the dental examination shall be made in accordance with Form 2 in the Schedule.

1. Duty of head teacher

The head teacher or person in charge of a school shall carry out such instructions as are given by an authorized medical practitioner, authorized dentist or authorized dental therapist, for the purpose of the examination of the children attending the school.

1. Vermin

An authorized medical practitioner or authorized nurse who finds that a child attending a school is in an unclean or verminous condition may, by writing, notify the parent or guardian of the child of the fact and require the parent or guardian to remedy the unclean or verminous condition forthwith, and to keep the child clean or free from vermin.

1. Penalty

A person who contravenes or fails to comply with a provision of these Regulations or with an instruction or notice given under these Regulations shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable, upon conviction, to a penalty not exceeding $50 and where the offence is a continuing offence, a penalty not exceeding $4 for every day during which the offence continues.

The Schedule

FORM 1

regulation 3(2)

CONFIDENTIAL

NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA

PUBLIC HEALTH (MEDICAL AND DENTAL INSPECTION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN) REGULATIONS

SCHOOL MEDICAL RECORD

SUMMARY OF DEFECTS OR DISEASES FOR STATISTICAL PURPOSES

V = No defect; O = Defect requiring observation; T = Defect requiring treatment; R = Reference to specialist.

13. Defect:

1. Special Educational Treatment – (State category and recommendation) –

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MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS AND NOTES

FORM 2

regulation 4(2)

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PUBLIC HEALTH (MEDICAL AND DENTAL INSPECTION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN) REGULATIONS

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DENTAL EXAMINATION AND TREATMENT RECORD

TOOTH CHART

Right Side of Patient Left Side of Patient

ENDNOTES

1 KEY

Key to abbreviations

amd = amended od = order
app = appendix om = omitted
bl = by-law pt = Part
ch = Chapter r = regulation/rule
cl = clause rem = remainder
div = Division renum = renumbered
exp = expires/expired rep = repealed
f = forms s = section
Gaz = Gazette sch = Schedule
hdg = heading sdiv = Subdivision
ins = inserted SL = Subordinate Legislation
lt = long title sub = substituted

nc = not commenced

2 LIST OF LEGISLATION

1. GENERAL AMENDMENTS

General amendments of a formal nature (which are not referred to in the list of amendments to this reprint) are made by s 11 of the Ordinances Revision Ordinance 1973 (Act No. 87, 1973) (as amended) to the following provisions: rr 3 and 4

1. LIST OF AMENDMENTS

r 2 amd No. 19, 1973, r 1; No. 55, 1991; Act No. 8, 1995, s 5; Act No. 17, 1997, s 18; Act No. 44, 2005, s 22; Act No. 18, 2010, s 89

r3 amd Act No. 7, 2011, s 147

r 4 amd No. 19, 1973, r 2; Act No. 17, 1997, s 18

r 5 amd No. 19, 1973, r 3

r 7 amd No. 19, 1973, r 4

sch amd No. 19, 1973, r 5; Act No. 7, 2011, s 147