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10. (3) When a person has been registered, the Council shall issue registration. to him a certificate of registration in such form as may be prescribed.

(2) A registered dentist who requires a certified copy of his certificate of registration in order to comply with the provisions of subsection (1) of section 14 shall apply in writing to the Registrar enclosing one passport size photograph and stating the address of the premises at which he proposes to practise, and the Registcar may thereupon issue to the registered dentist a certified copy of his certificate of registration.

(3) (a) The registered address appearing upon the certificate of registration shall be the principal address at which the registered dentist carries on his practice;

(6) every registered dentist shall report to the Registrar every address at which he carries on the practice of dentistry for gain:

(c) every registered dentist shall report to the Registrar any change of his registered address or the change of any other address at which he carries on the practice of dentistry for gain within two months of such change;

(d) upon a report of any change of a registered address being made to the Registrar in accordance with paragraph (c) the Registrar shall cause the registered address upon the certificate of registration or upon any certified copy thereof or upon borb such certificate of registration and upon such certified copy thereof as the case may be to be amended accordingly; (e) any registered dentist who fails to make a report in accordance with paragraph (8) or (c) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine of five hundred dollars.

(4) If a certificate of registration has been lost, destroyed or defaced, the registered dentist may apply in writing to the Registrar to issue to him a duplicate certificate of registration and the Registrar upon being satisfied as to such loss, destruction or defacement, shall issue to the registered dentist a duplicate certificate of registration in the same form as is prescribed for a certificate of registration, marked on the face thereof with the word "duplicate".

(5) If it appears to the Registrar that a certificate of registration or a certified copy of a certificate of registration is defaced or that the photograph thercon is not a reasonable likeness of the registered dentist to whom the certificate of registration relates the Registrar by notice in writing may require the registered dentist to lodge his certificate of registration or certified copy, as the case may be, with the Registrar and to apply for the issue of a duplicate certificate of registration of of another certified copy, and any registered dentist who on being so

required fails to do so within seven days of the service of such notice shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine of one hundred dollars.

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11. (1) Every registered dentist shall be entitled to recover in due Privileges of course of law reasonable charges for professional aid, advice and visits Estered and the value of any medicine or any dental or medical appliances rendered, made or supplied by him to his patients.

(2) No person shall be entitled to recover in any court any such charges as are referred to in subsection (1) unless at the date when such charges accrued he was a registered dentist.

12. (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

(5) a majority of the directors and all persons practising dentistry

are registered dentists:

Provided that a body corporate which was carrying on the business of dentistry before the date of commencement of this Ordinance shall not be disqualified from carrying on the business of dentistry under this section by reason only that it carries on some business other than dentistry or a business ancillary to that business, if that other business is a business which the body was lawfully entitled at the date of coming into operation of this Ordinance to carry on,

(2) Save as aforesaid it shall not be lawful for any body corporate to carry on the business of dentistry, and any body corporate which erries on the business of dentistry in contravention of the provisions of this section and every director and manager thereof shall, unless he proves that the offence was committed without his knowledge, be guilty of an offence and shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine of two thousand dollars for each offence.

(3) Every body corporate carrying on the business of dentistry sball within seven days of the 1st day of January in every year transmit to the Registrar a statement in the prescribed form containing the names and addresses of all persons who are directors or managers of the company, or who perform dental operations in connexion with the business of the company, and, if any such body corporate fails so to do, it shall be deemed to be carrying on the business of dentistry in contravention of the provisions of this section.

(4) Nothing in this section shall prevent the carrying on of the business of dentistry by the operating staff of any hospital of any description (including an institution for out-patients only), or of any dental school, which is approved for the purposes of this section by the Governor in Council.

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