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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 5, 1914.
Appoint. ment of members of
Dental
Board.
Quorum.
Dental Register:
To be kept.
Form of.
Annual publication in Gazette of.
Gazette to be evidence of registra- tion.
Qualifica- tion for
registration.
(2.) The un-official members of the Dental Board shall be appointed by the Governor and shall hold office for 3 years but may be re-appointed or removed by the Governor at his pleasure.
(3.) Three members of the Board shall form a quorum.
4. (1.) The Colonial Secretary shall keep a Register of Dental Surgeons qualified to practise in this Colony and of persons exempted under the provisions of section 5 (2) of this Ordinance and such Register shall be styled the "Dental Register".
(2.) The said "Dental Register" shall be as nearly as may be according to the Form in the Schedule to this Ordinance.
(3.) A copy of the Dental Register as it stands at such date shall be published by the Colonial Secretary in the first Gazette issued after every 3rd May.
(4.) Any copy of the Gazette containing the most recent copy of the said Register shall be primâ facie evidence in all legal proceedings that the persons therein specified are registered or exempted persons as the case may be under the provisions of this Ordinance and the absence of any name from such copy shall be primâ facie evidence that such person is not registered or exempted as the case may be under the provisions of this Ordinance.
5.-(1.) Any person who on applying in writing to the Colonial Secretary and furnishing him with such proof of such qualifications as may be prescribed by regulation made under the provisions of this Ordinance and who in the opinion of the Governor-in-Council with the advice of the Dental Board is a fit and proper person to be registered as a Dental Surgeon shall be entitled to be registered in the Dental Register.
Special
(2.) It shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council with certificate of the advice of the Dental Board to grant a certificate exemption to exempting from any or all of the provisions of this Ordi- unqualified
nance any person who, although otherwise unqualified, is, dentists of long local by reason of his long practice of dentistry in the Colony practice. prior to the date of the coming into operation of this Ordi- nance or on any other ground which may be by the Governor-in-Council deemed adequate, in the opinion of the Governor-in-Council a person to whom exemption from all or any of the provisions of this Ordinance may properly be granted. Provided that any such certificate so granted may be at any time revoked or amended in such manner and for such cause as may by the Governor-in-Council be deemed necessary or desirable.
Removal from Register:
on death;
on leaving Colony;
after serious criminal offence; or infamous professional conduct;
on revocation of exemption certificate.
Restoration
(3.) It shall be lawful for the Colonial Secretary to remove from the Dental Register the name of any Register- ed Dental Surgeon or exempted person who-
(4.) is believed to be deceased;
(b) has ceased for a period extending over 5 years
to reside in the Colony;
(c) has been convicted of any felony or mis-
demeanour ;
(d.) has been in the opinion of the Dental Board and of the Governor-in-Council guilty of in- fainous conduct in any professional respect; (e) being an exempted person has had the cer- tificate of exemption granted to him revoked under the provisions of the preceding sub- section.
(4.) It shall be lawful for the Colonial Secretary to to Register. restore to the Dental Register at any time the name of any
person by order of the Governor-in-Council.
Unqualified
persons probibited from using incorrect or misleading titles or statements of capacity.
6.-(1.) No person other than a Registered Dental Sur- geon or an exempted person shall by any public or private advertisement or in any way whatsoever describe himself or hold himself out as or offer his services as a Dental Surgeon, Doctor of Dental Surgery, Licentiate in Dental Surgery, or Dentist, or under other like title or designa- tion or as in any way licensed or authorized or qualified to perform or as otherwise capable of performing any dental operation.