Persons who are entitled to
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7. Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, the following persons and no others shall be entitled to registra- registration. tion under this Ordinance-
Ordinance No. 16 of 1914.
Application for
registration.
Certificate of
(a) any person who holds a degree, diploma or other document of any examining body in the British Empire or in any foreign country which is recognized by the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom as registrable in the Dentists Register of the United Kingdom;
(b) any person who holds a degree, diploma or other document of any examining body which may from time to time be recognized by the Board as entitling the holder thereof to registration under this Ordinance;
(c) any person who at the commencement of this Ordinance is registered under the Dentistry Ordinance, 1914;
(d) any person who has been engaged as his principal means of livelihood in the practice of dentistry in the Colony up to the date of the commencement of this Ordinance:
Provided that every person applying for registration under this paragraph shall furnish evidence of good character which shall satisfy the Board and shall have made application for registration before the expiration of the interim period prescribed under section 3, or within such further period, not exceeding two years, as the Board may in special circum- stances allow.
8. (1) Any person entitled to be registered under this Ordinance may apply to the Registrar for registration. Every such application shall be made in such manner and shall be accompanied by such documents, photographs and particulars as may be prescribed.
(2) Where such person has complied with the provisions of sub-section (1) and with any regulations relating thereto, and has paid the prescribed fee, he shall, subject to the provisions of sub-section (3), be admitted by the Board to the register.
(3) If any person applying for registration has been convicted of any heinous offence or after due inquiry by the Board is deemed by it to have been guilty of infamous or disgraceful conduct in any professional respect the Board may
refuse to enter the name of such person upon the register. Upon such inquiry the person against whom such offence or conduct is alleged shall be entitled to appear and be heard by counsel or solicitor.
9. Where a person has been admitted to the register, the registration. Board shall issue a certificate of registration, and such certi- ficate shall entitle such person to practise dentistry in the Colony until the next succeeding thirty-first day of December. A photograph of such person shall be affixed to such certi- ficate.
Dental companies.
10.-(1) A body corporate may carry on the business of dentistry if-
(a) it carries on no business other than dentistry or some business ancillary to the business of dentistry; and