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No. 1.

REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

STANDING LAW COMMITTEE

at a Meeting held in the Council Chambers, Hongkong, on the 7th June, 1906.

PRESENT:

The Honourable the Attorney General, (Sir HENRY SPENCER BERKELEY, Kt.), Chairman. the Harbour Master, (Captain LIONEL AUBREY WALTER Barnes-Law-

RENCE, R.N.).

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Dr. Ho KAI, M.B., C.M., C.M.G.

Mr. WEI YUK.

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ABSENT:

The Honourable Mr. HENRY EDWARD POLLOCK, K.C.

I, HENRY SPENCER BERKELEY, Attorney General, Chairman of the Standing Law Committee, do hereby certify that the Standing Law Committee on the 7th day of June, 1906, considered clause by clause two Bills entitled respectively "An Ordinance to amend the Law relating to the Property of Married Women" and "An Ordinance to regulate the qualifications and to provide for the Registration of Dentists," and unanimously recom- mended that the former Bill be dealt with by the Council in the same way as a Bill reported on by a Committee of the whole Council, and that the latter Bill be reported to the Council with the following amendments, namely :—

1. That clause 1 of the Bill be amended by the substitution of the figure "1906 ”

for the figure1905 ".

2. That clause 5 sub-section 1 be amended by deleting all the words following the word "after" in the third line and substituting the words "the 3rd day of May in every year.

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3. That clause 7 of the Bill be deleted and the following substituted :-

"7. Subject to the provisions of sections 2 and 3 no person shall be entitled to recover in any action any charge for any dental aid rendered after the commencement of this Ordinance, unless or until such person shall have been registered as prescribed by this Ordinance."

4. That clause 8 (1.) of the Bill be amended by the insertion between the words "dentists and CC who" in the 6th line thereof the words "and any two other fit persons willing to accept the appointment."

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5. That clause 8 (2.) of the Bill be deleted and the following substituted:—-

"(2.) An appointed member shall hold office for three years."

6. That clause 9. (1.) of the Bill be deleted and the following substituted :--

"(1.) shall prove to the satisfaction of the Board that he was within three years prior to the passing of this Ordinance a bona fide practitioner of dentistry and dental surgery in this Colony, and shall make application in writing to the Dentists Board for regis- tration within six weeks after the commencement of this Ordin- ance or, in the case of persons absent from the Colony at the date of the commencement of this Ordinance, shall make such application within six weeks after his return to the Colony; or". 7. That clause 9 (3.) of the Bill be amended by the addition at the end thereof of the words" and, in the case of such diplomas as have been granted after the 1st day of October, 1897, shall in addition produce a Certificate granted by the Dental Council of Pensylvania or by the State Board of Massachusetts or by the State Board of Michigan which entitles him to practise dental surgery in any of those States; or

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