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No. 16 of 1914.
DENTISTRY.
Appoint-ment of members of Dental Board. Quorum. Dental Register. Form. Schedule. Annual publication in Gazette. Gazette to be evidence of registration. Qualification for registration. Special certificate of exemption to unqualified dentists of long local practice.
(who shall be chairman of the Dental Board), two medical practitioners and two dental practitioners.
(2) The unofficial members of the Dental Board shall be appointed by the Governor and shall hold office for three years, but may be reappointed or removed by the Governor at his pleasure.
(3) Three members of the Dental Board shall form a quorum.
4. (1) The Director of Medical Services shall keep a register of dental surgeons qualified to practise in the Colony and of persons exempted under the provisions of section 5 (2), and such register shall be styled the Dental Register.
(2) The Dental Register shall be as nearly as may be according to the form in the Schedule.
(3) A copy of the Dental Register as it stands at such date shall be published by the Director of Medical Services in the first Gazette issued after every 3rd day of May.
(4) Any copy of the Gazette containing the most recent copy of the Dental Register shall be primâ facie evidence in all legal proceedings that the persons therein specified are registered dental surgeons 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 Director of Medical Services 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.
(2) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council with the advice of the Dental Board to grant a certificate exempting from any or all of the provisions of this Ordinance any person who, although otherwise unqualified, is, by reason of his long practice...
As amended by No. 9 of 1928 [13.7.28].