Pursuant to sections 130–133 of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 (“Act”), the following notice is given.

Notice

1. Title and Commencement—(1) This notice may be cited as the Oral Health Practitioners (Fees) Notice 2021 (No. 1) and shall come into force on 1 April 2021.

(2) This notice has the status of a disallowable instrument for the purposes of the Legislation Act 2012.

(3) This notice replaces the Oral Health Practitioners (Fees) Notice 2020 (No. 1) notice published in the New Zealand Gazette, 26 February 2020, Notice No. 2020-gs489.

2. Fees—The Dental Council sets the following fees specified in the attached Schedule.

3. Tax—The fees are stated exclusive of goods and services tax (GST). All fees are subject to the addition of 15% GST.

Schedule

Annotation of Notes

¹ Fee will be adjusted for any specific requirements of the individual programme and third party costings at the time the programme is established.

² The practitioner will be charged direct professional fees and travel and accommodation expenses for supervisors, those providing oversight, tutors, course administrators etc. These expenses will be charged on an actual and reasonable basis in accordance with the Dental Council’s fees and payments and expenditure decisions and probity policies. Course materials, venue costs and administration expenses such as printing and postage will also be charged based on actual costs.

Competence programme:

The fees payable by a practitioner who is required to undertake a competence programme set or recognised by the Council under section 40 of the Act will be an amount that is sufficient to reimburse the Council for all costs and expenses actually and reasonably incurred by the Council in relation to the competence programme that applies to the practitioner. Such costs and expenses may include, without limitation:

1. fees for service providers engaged by the Council in relation to the competence programme;
2. travel, accommodation, and travel-related costs incurred in connection with site visits;
3. administration expenses for Council administration, teleconference meetings, printing, postage, and communications.

Fees payable will be adjusted for the specific requirements of the individual competence programme and can range depending on the level of education required to bring a practitioner up to the required standard of competence.

Recertification programme:

The fees payable by a practitioner who is required to undertake an individual recertification programme set or recognised by the Council under section 41 of the Act will be an amount that is sufficient to reimburse the Council for all costs and expenses actually and reasonably incurred by the Council in relation to the recertification programme that applies to the practitioner. Such costs and expenses may include, without limitation:

1. fees for service providers engaged by the Council in relation to the recertification programme;
2. travel, accommodation, and travel-related costs incurred in connection with site visits;
3. administration expenses for Council administration, teleconference meetings, printing, postage, and communications.

Fees payable will be adjusted for the specific requirements of the individual recertification programme and can range depending on the level of education required to bring a practitioner up to the required standard.

Supervision:

The fees payable by a practitioner who is the subject of a condition included in the practitioner’s scope of practice requiring the practitioner to practise subject to the supervision of one or more nominated health practitioners or health practitioners of a stated class will be an amount that is sufficient to reimburse the Council for all costs and expenses actually and reasonably incurred by the Council in relation to the supervision of the practitioner. Such costs and expenses may include, without limitation:

1. fees for persons engaged by the Council to provide supervision;
2. travel, accommodation, and travel-related costs incurred in connection with site visits;
3. administration expenses for Council administration, teleconference meetings, printing, postage, and communications.

Fees payable will be adjusted for the specific requirements of the supervision that can range depending on the duration of supervision required for the practitioner to be meet the required standard of competence.

³ The practitioner will be charged for secretariat administrative overheads at $76.45 an hour.

Explanatory Note

This notice updates the Dental Council fee schedule with effect from 4 March 2021. The changes consist of:

• The changes in fees and levies were consulted on with dentists and dental specialists, dental therapists, dental hygienists, orthodontic auxiliaries, oral health therapists, dental technicians and clinical dental technicians and other stakeholders from December 2020 to January 2021. Following the close of the consultation period on 15 January 2021, the 2021/22 fees and levies were approved by the Dental Council at its meeting on 1 February 2021.
• Except as described above, no other changes have been made to fees as previously published in the Oral Health Practitioners (Fees) Notice 2020 (No. 1) notice published in the New Zealand Gazette, 26 February 2020, Notice No. 2020-gs489.