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The main provisions of the Ordinance are as follows:-
(a) The creation of a body of registered dental
surgeons.
(b) The establishment of an advisory dental board,
(c) Power to exempt approved persons on such
grounde es long practice in the Colony.
(4) Prohibition against unregistered and un-
exempted persons holding themselves out as
capable of performing any dental operation, (e) Prohibition against dental practitioners
using titles which they do not possess.
(f) A declaration that registered dental surgeons
and exempted persons may practise dentistry
and may sue for their fees.
(g) Power to make regulations.
Section 1 is formel.
Section 2 contains the definitions
Section 3 establishes the dental board.
Section 4 contains provisions relating to the keeping of register.
Section 5 provides for registration, exemption of un- qualified dentists on certain grounds, removal from the register, and restoration to the register.
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Section 6(1) provides that no person other than a tered dental surgeon or an exempted person shall in
hold himself out as capable of performing any dental
"Dental operation" is defined in Section 2.
t on.
Section 8(2) provides that no person who practises
de tistry shall use any title such as doctor of dental
surgery until he nsproved to the Governor-in-Council that the title in question has been duly conferred upon him by some approved body.
Section 6(3) declares that registered dental surgeons
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and exempted persons may practise dentistry and may sue for their
fees. Though this sub-section does not negative the right of un-
registered and unexempted persons to practise dentistry and sue for
their fees, yet the combined effect of this sub-section and sub-
section (1) of Section 6 apparently is to take away from unregistered
and unexempted persons any right to sue for trer fees for performing
any dental operations. Accordingly those unregistered and unexempted
persons against whom the ordinance is not enforced will have to pro-
tect themselves by obtaining payment before hand.
Section 7 provides penalties for contraventions of Section 6, for
frauds in connection with registration, and for practising under an
assumed name.
Section 8 gives the Governor-in-Council over to make regulations.
Section 9 provides that the Ordinance should come into force from
the 1st August, 1914,
2/ In my opinion this is an Ordinance to which His Excellency the
Governor may properly assent in the name of His Majesty and on His
behalf.
Attorney General,
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