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No. 16 of 1914.

DENTISTRY.

from using any title which has not been properly conferred upon them.

Registered or exempted person may practise and recover charges.

Penalties: for contravention of section 6; for fraudulent misrepresentation; for practising under assumed name.

Regulations.

whatsoever describe himself or hold himself out as or offer his services as or in any way use the title or designation of doctor, Doctor of Dental Surgery, Licentiate in Dental Surgery, or any other like title or designation, unless and until he has proved to the satisfaction of the Governor in Council with the advice of the Dental Board that the title or designation which he proposes to use has been duly conferred upon him by some university, corporation, college or other body which, in the opinion of the Governor in Council with the advice of the Dental Board, may properly be recognized as capable of duly conferring such title or designation.

(3) Any registered dental surgeon or exempted person shall be entitled to perform dental operations and to practise dentistry and dental surgery in the Colony and to demand and recover reasonable charges for any dental operation, attendance, advice or aid, and the cost of any dental medicines, dental appliances, dental plates or artificial dentures supplied by him.

7.-(1) Every person who contravenes any of the provisions of section 6 shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.

(2) Every person who fraudulently procures or attempts to procure himself or any other person to be registered under or exempted from the provisions of this Ordinance by making or producing or causing to be made or produced any false or fraudulent representation or declaration, either oral or in writing, and every person who aids and assists him therein, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and being convicted thereof shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years.

(3) Every person who practises dentistry or dental surgery under the designation of any company, association, dental institute, dental hospital or dental college or in any other manner than under his own name or under the name of his firm, each member of which shall be either a registered dental surgeon or an exempted person, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months.

8. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations for any of the following purposes-

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