An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to dentists.

  • Tasmania.
Date:
1903
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to dentists. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    A.D.1903. Registration in Dentists’ Register. Dentists’ Register. Existing Register continued. Certificate to issue. Public may inspect. Application for Registration. Removal of names when address unknown. Change of address to be notified. Names of persons guilty of certain offences may be erased from Dentists’Register. Dentists. 11 When a person entitled to be registered under this Act produces or sends to the Registrar the document conferring or evidencing his qualification, with a statement of his name and address and other particulars, if any, required for registration, and pays the registration fee, he shall be registered in the Dentists’ Register, and the Registrar shall cause his name to be published in the Hobart Gazette. 12—(1.) A Register shall be kept by the Registrar, to be styled the “ Dentists’ Register,” and shall contain in one alphabetical list the names of all persons registered under this Act, together with their qualifications and places of residence. (2.) The Register kept by the Registrar under the provisions of any Act hereby repealed shall be deemed to be the Register to be kept under the provisions of this Act. 13 On application made to him at any time for that purpose by any Dentist, the Registrar shall issue to such applicant a Certificate of Registration. 14 The Dentists’ Register as aforesaid shall be open to inspection by the public. 15—(1.) The Registrar shall submit all applications for registration under this Act to the Board, who shall consider the qualifications of the applicant, and decide whether or not such person shall be registered. (2.) The Registrar shall from time to time, upon being directed by the Board so to do, erase the names of any Dentist who shall have died ; and shall from time to time insert in the Register any alteration which comes to the knowledge of the Board, in the name, address, or qualification of any person registered under this Act. (3.) The Board may from time to time cause a letter to be written by the Registrar to any Dentist, a registered letter addressed to him at his usual or last known address in the State of Tasmania, to inquire whether he has changed such address, and stating that if no answer be returned to such letter within a period of Six months from the date of the posting thereof the Board may cause the name of such Dentist to be removed from the Register, and the Board may cause such name to be removed accordingly. Upon the application of such Dentist, and the production of his Certificate or other satisfactory evidence of his former registration, the Board shall cause his name to be re-entered in the Register. (4.) Every Dentist changing his address shall notify his new address to the Registrar. 16 The Board shall cause to be erased from the Dentists’ Register any entry which has been incorrectly or fraudulently made. And any person registered in the Dentists’ Register who has, either before or after the passing of this Act, and either before or after he is so reg istered, been convicted of any felony or misdemeanor, or been guilty of any infamous or disgraceful conduct in a professional respect, the name of \ V