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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 18, 1906.

Objects and Reasons.

The object of this Ordinance is to accord to married women in the Colony the like protection with regard to their property as is enjoyed by maried women in Eugland and elsewhere in the Empire.

For that purpose the Ordinance embodies and extends to the Colony with some slight necessary modifications the provisions of the cnactments of the Imperial Parliament known as the Married Women's Property Acts, 1882 and 1893, amending the provisions of the Married Women's Property Act, 1870.

It is proposed to give the Ordinance retrospective effect as from the 1st day of January, 1883, the date when the Married Women's Property Act, 1882, came into operation in England, in order to place married women in this Colony in the position, in respect to the capacity to acquire and dispose of property, which they have for many years occupied in England and elsewhere.

At present the anomaly exists that while a married woman may, and in many instances does, possess separate property as a feme sole in England and elsewhere, the same woman finds hereself unable to possess such property here except through the intervention of a trustee.

HENRY S. BERKELEY,

A BILL

ENTITLED

Attorney General,

An Ordinance to regulate the qualifications and

to provide for the Registration of Dentists.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:--

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Dentists Regis- Short title. tration Ordinance, 1905.

of medical

2. This Ordinance shall not operate to limit the right of Saving rights any registered medical practitioner to practise dentistry or practi- dental surgery, or to receive, demand or recover reasonable tioners. charges in respect of such practice.

of other

persons.

3. This Ordinance shall not extend to those persons who Saving rights practise only the extraction of teeth, but no such

person shall make use of any name, title, designation, addition or des- cription, expressed in words or by letters, implying that he is qualified to practise dentistry or dental surgery in this Colony,

of Dentists.

4. (1.) The Colonial Secretary shall keep a Register of Register dentists qualified to practise in this Colony, to be known as the "Dentists Register."

(2.) The said Register shall be as nearly as may be according to the Form No. I in the Schedule to this Ordi-

nance.

5. (1) A copy of the Dentists Register as it stands at Annual any such time shall be published by the Colonial Secretary of Register. publication in the first Gazette issued after every succeeding 3rd day of May.

Evidence of

(2.) Any copy of the Gazette containing the most recent copy of the said Register shall be primâ fucie evidence in registration. all legal proceedings that the persons therein specified are registered under this Ordinance ; and the absence of any name from such copy shall be primâ facie evidence that such person is not registered under this Ordinance.

6. Every person registered under this Ordinance shall Authority to be entitled to practise dentistry and dental surgery in this practise

dentistry. Colony, and to demand and recover reasonable charges for dental aid rendered and for dental appliances supplied by

him.

Limitation

7. Subject to the provisions of Sections 2 and 3 no person of right to shall be entitled to recover in any action any charge to recover for any dental aid rendered, after the

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under this Ordinance.

day of fees. by any person not registered

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