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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.

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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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