CHAPTER 8. An Act to amend "The Dental Association Act." [Assented to 31st January, 1905.] WHEREAS the Manitoba Dental Association has by its petition prayed that the Acts under which said Association is incorporated should be amended, and it is expedient to grant their prayer, Therefore His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows: 1. Sections 4, 5, 9, 11, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, and subsections (c) and (d) of section 21 of chapter 47 of the Revised Statutes of Manitoba, 1902, are hereby repealed and the following substituted therefor: directors. 4. There shall be a board of directors of said asso- Board of ciation, which shall consist of six members, who shall, except as hereinafter provided, hold office for four years. Except at the first election of directors after the passing of this Act, three of said directors shall be elected each second year. At the first election aforesaid six directors Election of shall be elected, three of whom shall be elected to hold board. office for four years and three for two years. The three directors at such first election receiving the greatest number of votes shall be deemed to be elected for the four-year period, and the three receiving the next largest number of votes shall be deemed to be elected for the two-year period. In the event of a tie between any candidates at such election, In case of a the president of the association, at the time such election is held, is authorized to determine which of the parties affected by the tie is elected, or which of such parties shall hold office for four years and which for two years. director may at any time resign by letter directed vacancy. to the secretary; and, in the event of any such resignation, or of a vacancy occurring by death or otherwise, the remaining members of the board, or a majority of such remaining members, shall elect some fit and proper person from among the members of the association to supply such vacancy. tie. Any Filling 5. An election of directors of the said association shall Date of be held in the City of Winnipeg on the second Monday of elections. Notice of meeting. Postponed election. Directors to hold office until suc January in every second year, the first election after the passing of this Act being held on the eighth day of January, A.D. 1906. One month's notice of each election of directors shall be given by circular by the secretary to each member of the association, provided that any oversight or omission in giving such notice shall not void the election. If for any reason the election of directors shall not be held on the date specified in this Act, it shall be held on such date thereafter as shall be appointed by the directors or by any ten members of the association in writing by a letter addressed to the secretary. (a). In the event of the election of directors not being held on any of the days aforesaid, the directors in office cessors elected shall continue to hold office until their successors are Manner of voting by present at meeting. appointed. (b). The members of the association may, at any election members not of directors, cast their ballots without being actually pres ent at the place where the election is being held, provided that such ballots shall be sent or handed to the secretary of the association so as to be received by him prior to the hour fixed for the holding of the election. In the event of ballots so sent or handed, they shall be signed by the member of the association voting and shall set forth the names of the candidates for whom such member votes. In the event of any such ballot being marked for more names than there are vacancies, such ballot shall be rejected. Ballots so sent or handed shall be enclosed in an envelope, and shall be so marked on the outside as to indicate that the envelope contains a ballot. Names to be published in Gazette. Two annual meetings of board for examination 9. The secretary of the association shall publish in The Manitoba Gazette the names of those persons who have been elected members of the board of directors, such publication to be made in the issue of the said Gazette appearing next after the said election shall have been held, or so soon thereafter as the secretary can reasonably cause the same to be published. 11. The board of directors of the association shall hold two meetings in each and every year in the City of Winnipeg, or such place as may from time to time be fixed by the board, for the purpose of conducting examinations, granting certificates of license and doing such other business as may properly come before them. Such meet ings shall be held on the second Monday in January and of candidates. July of each year, and may be continued or adjourned until the business before the board is disposed of. examiners. 14. The board of directors of said association shall Assistance of also have authority to examine candidates, both for interInediate and final examinations, and to appoint examiners to assist them in conducting such examinations or such portions thereof as they may desire, and they may accept the report of such examiners in respect to the said examinations or any portions thereof, and the directors may grant certificates of license to practise dental surgery in this Province. of board. 16. The board shall also have the power and authority Other powers to fix and determine the period for which every student shall be articled and employed under some duly licensed and registered practitioner and the examinations necessary to be passed, including such intermediate examinations as the board may think proper, and including the curriculum. of studies to be pursued by students, and to fix and determine the fees to be paid into the hands of the treasurer of the association before the applicant shall receive a certificate of license to practise the profession of dentistry or be entitled to registration under this Act, and also to fix the annual fee to be payable by each member of the association. before enter 17. The matriculation or preliminary examination as Matriculation provided in the fifteenth section of this Act shall be passed ing into by all students prior to entering into articles of indenture articles. with a licentiate of dentistry, provided that a certificate from the University of Manitoba, that the intending student has matriculated according to the curriculum of the said university, shall be taken in lieu of the matriculation or preliminary examination aforesaid. The commencement of the term of any articled student shall date from the signing of his articles as aforesaid. entitled to be 18. The board of directors shall, at its regular meetings, who are examine or cause to be examined all candidates for license examined. to practise dentistry and for registration under this Act who present themselves pursuant to the provisions of the next succeeding sections. tion on Council, certi to be accepted 21. (c). The board of directors shall have power to Representaappoint one or more members of the association as repre- Dominion sentatives of the association upon the Dominion Dental Dent Council and the board shall so long as represented on the ficate of which said Council accept the certificate of qualification of the as qualificasaid Dominion Dental Council as a qualification sufficient without further examination for the granting to the holder thereof of a license to practise dentistry in the Province tion. S. 15 amended. S. 21 (b) amended. S. 22 amended. S. 25 amended. of Manitoba, provided such certificate is accompanied by satisfactory evidence of the good moral character of the applicant. 2. Section 15, sub-section (b) of section 21 and sections 22 and 25 of said Act are hereby amended as follows: 15. By inserting the word "also" after the word "shall" where the said word first appears in the said section. 21. (b). By striking out the words "member of any college as the same appear in the first line of the said sub-section, and by substituting in lieu thereof the words "graduate of any school." 22. By striking out the word "examination" where the same first appears in the said section and substituting therefor the word "examinations," and by striking out the words the nineteenth section of" where the same first appear in said section. 25. By striking out the word "Tuesday" where the same appears in the said section and by substituting therefor the word "Monday." 3. This Act shall come into force on the day it is assented to. CHAPTER 9. An Act to amend "The Land Drainage Act." [Assented to 31st January, 1905.] WHEREAS further funds are required to complete certain drainage works in Drainage District No. 2, formed under the provisions of "The Land Drainage Act,' Therefore His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows: loan of $150,000 1. That further or supplementary debentures may be Additional issued, with respect to or on account of said Drainage Dis- for work in Drainage trict Numbered 2, formed under the provisions of "The District No. 2. Land Drainage Act," for an amount not to exceed the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. effect of 2. The said debentures, in form, shall conform as far Form and as possible to all the provisions in that behalf contained in debentures for "The Land Drainage Act," and shall have the like significance, force and effect, and be subject to be dealt with in the same manner and to the same extent, as regards the debentures issued under the said Act. repayment of mode on all district. 3. All lands in the said drainage district, heretofore Levies for levied upon to provide for the repayment of the debentures loan to be already issued, and the interest thereon, shall be liable for lands in the repayment of the debentures authorized to be issued under this Act, and the interest thereon, on the basis and to the same extent or proportion of benefits as set forth and provided in the case of the preceding issue of debentures. Act. 4. All other provisions of "The Land Drainage Act" Application of and amending Acts shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to any debentures issued under the provisions of this Act. 5. This Act shall come into force on the day it is assented to. |