| (1) | The council may order the registrar to remove the name of any person from the register concerned if the council is satisfied that such person— |
| (b) | has left the Republic permanently or has been absent from the Republic for a continuous period of more than three years without the council's permission; |
| (c) | has failed to pay any money which he or she owes to the council within three months after the date on which a reminder has been sent to him or her by the registrar by registered post to his or her address as entered in the register; |
| (d) | has failed to notify the registrar, within a period of three months as from the date of a written enquiry sent by the registrar to the address appearing in the register in respect of such person, of his or her present address; |
| (e) | has requested that his or her name be removed from the register, in which case such person may be required by the registrar to lodge with the registrar an affidavit or affirmation to the effect that no disciplinary or criminal proceedings are being or are likely to be instituted against him or her. |
| (2) | Notice of the removal in terms of subsection (1) of his or her name from the register or the removal in terms of section 20(4) or 23(4) of an entry from the register, shall be given by the registrar to the person concerned by sending a letter embodying the notice of removal to such person at the address appearing in respect of him or her in the register. |
| (3) | As from the date on which notice is given in terms of subsection (2)— |
| (a) | any registration certificate issued in terms of this Act to the person concerned shall be deemed to be cancelled; and |
| (b) | such person shall cease to practise the profession of dental technician or dental technologist, as the case may be, or to perform any act which he or she was entitled to perform as a registered person, |
until such time as his or her name or the entry removed from the register in terms of section 20(4), as the case may be, is restored to the register.
| (a) | it appears to the judge referred to in section 19 of the Mental Health Act, 1973 (Act No. 18 of 1973), from the documents submitted to him or her in terms of section 18(3) of that Act, or it is brought to the notice of such judge in any other manner, that the person to whom the documents relate is a person registered under this Act and such person is declared a mentally ill person as contemplated in section 19(1)(b) of that Act; or |
| (b) | it is brought to the notice of a court that an accused person appearing before it is registered in terms of this Act, and the court in terms of section 77(6) or 78(6) of the Criminal Procedure Act, 1977 (Act No. 51 of 1977), directs that the accused person be detained pending the signification of the decision of the President, |
the judge or court shall direct that a copy of the order declaring the person concerned a mentally ill person, or, as the case may be, a copy of the direction that the accused be detained pending the signification of the decision of the President, be transmitted to the registrar, and the registrar shall on receipt of the copy remove the name of the person concerned from the register.
| (5) | A name which has been removed from the register in terms of this section or an entry which has been removed from the register in terms of section 20(4), shall be restored to the register by the registrar if the person concerned— |
| (a) | applies on the prescribed form for such restoration; |
| (b) | pays any fee prescribed in respect of such restoration; |
| (c) | if his or her name has been removed from the register in terms of subsection (4), submits proof to the satisfaction of the council of his or her discharge in terms of the provisions of the Mental Health Act, 1973, from the institution at which he or she was detained; and |
| (d) | complies with such other requirements as the council may determine. |
