Regulations
12 (1) Subject to the approval of the Lieutenant Governor in Council and with prior review by the Minister, the Council may make regulations, (a)  specifying drugs that a member may use in the course of engaging in the practice of dental hygiene; (b)  prescribing requirements for performing scaling teeth and root planing, including curetting surrounding tissue, which requirements may include the educational and experiential qualifications that must be obtained in order for a member to undertake those procedures on the member’s own initiative; (c)  prescribing contraindications to a member performing or continuing to perform on the member’s own initiative the procedures of scaling teeth and root planing, including curetting surrounding tissue; (d)  designating drugs that a member may prescribe, dispense, compound or sell in the course of engaging in the practice of dental hygiene; (e)  regulating and governing the prescribing, dispensing, compounding, using and selling of drugs by members in the course of engaging in the practice of dental hygiene and ancillary matters, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, (i)  governing the purposes for which, or the circumstances under which, drugs may be prescribed, dispensed, compounded, used or sold, (ii)  setting requirements respecting the prescribing, dispensing, compounding, using and selling of drugs, (iii)  governing and regulating the storage, handling, display, identification, labelling and disposal of drugs, (iv)  setting prohibitions, (v)  requiring members to keep records respecting the prescribing, dispensing, compounding, using and selling of drugs and providing for the contents of those records, (vi)  requiring members to provide the College or the Minister with reports respecting the prescribing, dispensing, compounding, using and selling of drugs and providing for the contents of those reports.  2007, c. 10, Sched. B, s. 4 (4); 2009, c. 26, s. 4 (4). Individual drugs or categories (2) A regulation made under clause (1) (a) or (d) may specify or designate individual drugs or categories of drugs.  2009, c. 26, s. 4 (5). Incorporation by reference (3) A regulation made under clause (1) (a) or (d) may adopt, by reference, in whole or in part, and with such changes as are considered necessary, one or more documents setting out a list of individual drugs or a list of categories of drugs.  2009, c. 26, s. 4 (5). Rolling incorporation (4) If a regulation provided for in subsection (3) so provides, a document adopted by reference shall be a reference to it as amended from time to time after the making of the regulation.  2009, c. 26, s. 4 (5). Must be made by expert committee (5) A document adopted by reference under subsection (3) may only be a document created or approved by an expert committee established under section 43.2 of the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991 and no other body.  2009, c. 26, s. 4 (5). Availability (6) A document adopted by reference under subsection (3) must be named in the regulation and must be available for public inspection during normal business hours in the office of the College and must be posted on the College’s website or available through a hyperlink at the College’s website.  2009, c. 26, s. 4 (5). Section Amendments with date in force (d/m/y) 1998, c. 18, Sched. G, s. 27 (4) - 01/02/1999 2007, c. 10, Sched. B, s. 4 (3) - 04/06/2007; 2007, c. 10, Sched. B, s. 4 (4) - 01/09/2007 2009, c. 26, s. 4 (4, 5) - 15/12/2009