ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES. Clause. 1. Short title. 2. Interpretation. Registration. 3. Penalty on unregistered persons using title of dentist, &c. 4. Restriction on recovery of fees for dental operations. 5. Qualification necessary for registration. 6. Duty of registrars to keep registers. 7. Evidence of qualification for registration; appeal and amendment of register. 8. General register. 9. Branch registrars to send copies of entries to registrar of General Council. 10. Fees. 11. Registration of persons possessing foreign or colonial qualifications. 16. Continuance of examination in dental surgery by College of Surgeons of England. 17. General Council may require information as to examinations. 18. Power to unite for conducting examinations. 19. Representation to Privy Council of defects in examination. 20. Powers of Privy Council, on representation, to make order. 21. Consequences of order. 22. Saving as to registration under 21 & 22 Vict. c. 90. Clause. Supplemental. 23. Evidence of registration. 24. Exemptions of registered persons. 25. Application of fees. 26. Accounts to be published. 27. Penalty on wilful falsification of registers. 28. Penalty for obtaining registration by false representations. 29. Power to strike names off registers. A BILL 5 ΤΟ Amend the Law relating to Dental Practitioners. WHEREAS it is expedient that provision be made for the registration of persons specially qualified to practise as dentists in the United Kingdom, and that the law relating to persons practising as dentists be otherwise amended: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: A.D. 1878. 1. This Act may for all purposes be cited as the Dentists Act, Short title. 10 1878. 15 tation. c.90. 2. In this Act "General Council" means the General Council Interpreof Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom, established under the Medical Act, 1858; and "Branch Council" 21 & 22 Vict. means a branch of the said council as constituted by the same Act: "Registrar" means a person appointed to be a registrar by a General Council or a Branch Council under the Medical Act, 1858. Registration. persons 3. From and after the first day of August one thousand eight Penalty on hundred and seventy-nine, a person shall not be entitled to take or unregistered 20 use the name or title of "dentist" (either alone or in combination using title of with the word " surgeon" or with any other word or words), dentist, &c. "dental surgeon," or "dental practitioner," or any name, title, addition, or description implying that he is registered under this Act or that he is a person specially qualified to practise dentistry, 25 unless he is registered under this Act. Any person who, after the first day of August one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, not being registered under this Act, takes or uses any such name, title, addition, or description as aforesaid, shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not 30 exceeding twenty pounds. 1 A.D. 1878. Restriction 4. From and after the first day of August one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine a person shall not be entitled to recover on recovery any fee or charge, in any court, for the performance of any dental operation or for any dental attendance or advice, unless he is registered under this Act or is a legally qualified medical practitioner. 5. Any person who of fees for dental operations. Qualifica tion necessary for registration. 5 (a.) Is a licentiate in dental surgery or dentistry of any Royal shall be entitled to be registered under this Act: Provided that a person shall not be registered under this Act as having been at the passing thereof engaged in the practice of dentistry unless he pro- 15 duces or transmits to a registrar, before the first day of August one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, information of his name and address, and a declaration signed by him in the form in the schedule to this Act or to the like effect; and the registrar may, if he sees fit, require the truth of such declaration to be 20 affirmed in manner provided by the Act of the session held in the fifth and sixth years of the reign of King William the Fourth, 5 & 6 W. 4. chapter sixty-two, intituled "An Act to repeal an Act of the present session of Parliament, intituled An Act for the more "effectual abolition of oaths and affirmations taken and made in 25 "various departments of the State, and to substitute declarations c. 62. Duty of registrars to keep registers. in lieu thereof, and for the more entire suppression of voluntary "and extra-judicial oaths and affidavits; and to make other pro"visions for the abolition of unnecessary oaths." A person resident in the United Kingdom shall not be disqualified 30 for being registered under this section by reason that he is not a British subject; and a British subject shall not be disqualified for being registered under this section by reason of his being resident beyond the limits of the United Kingdom. 6. It shall be the duty of the registrars to make and keep for 35 England, Scotland, and Ireland respectively local registers, and to enter therein the names and addresses and the qualifications of persons entitled and applying to be registered under this Act. The registrars shall keep such registers correct in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the orders and regulations of 40 the General Council to be made under this Act, and shall from time to time erase the names of all registered persons who have died, |