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[No. 12-16.6.38.-1.1

A BILL

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Dentistry Ordinance, 1914.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof as follows:

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Dentistry Amend- Short title. ment Ordinance, 1938.

2. Sub-section (3) of section 5 of the Dentistry Ordinance, Substitution 1914, as amended by the Dentistry Amendment Ordinance, of paragraph 1928, is further amended-

(b) and new paragraph (66) for

No. 16 of 1914, s. 5 (3) as amended

(i) by the substitution of the following paragraph for Ordinance paragraph (b) thereof :-

(b) has ceased to reside in the Colony and has either not returned, or has in writing notified the Director of Medical by No. 9 Services of his intention not to return to the Colony for a period of five years;

(ii) by the insertion of the following paragraph im- mediately after paragraph (b) thereof :-

(bb) within 3 years of the sending to him by registered post at his address on the register of a letter by the Director of Medical Services, inquiring whether he has ceased to practise or has changed his address, fails to return an answer to such letter.

of 1928.

Objects and Reasons.

1. By section 5 (3) of the Dentistry Ordinance, No. 16 of 1914, the power of the Director of Medical Services to remove from the Dental Register the name of a person who has ceased to reside in the Colony is limited to the names of persons who have "ceased for a period extending over five years" so to reside.

2. This provision has resulted in the retention on the Register of the names of persons who have long severed all connexion with Hong Kong.

3. This Bill substitutes a new paragraph (b) and adds a new paragraph (bb) to section 5 (3) of the principal Ordinance, making better provision for the removal therefrom of the names of persons who have ceased to reside in the Colony and do not intend to return, or who cannot be traced, and thus enabling the Register to be kept up to date.

June, 1938.

J. A. FRASER,

Attorney General.