DENTISTRY ORDINANCE, 1914

DENTISTRY ORDINANCE, 1914

No. 16 of 1914.
An Ordinance to provide, for the registration of quatified
dertal surgeons and otherwise to regulate the practice
of dentistry.
[1st August, 1914.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited is the Dentistry Ordi-
nance, 1914.

2. In this Ordinance,

(a) Dental Board means the Dental Board established
under the provisions of this Ordinance.
(b) Dental operation includes the extraction of teeth,
or any operation on the teeth involving the use of any instru-
ment.
(c) Exempted person means a person who has been
granted a certificate of exemption iinder the provisions of
section 5 (2).

(d) Registered dental surgeon means an person who
has been registered as a dental surgeon in the register of
dental surgeons established under the provisions of this
Ordinance.

3.-(1) A Board to be styled the Dental Board shall be
established and shall consist of the Principal Civil Medical
Officer (who shall be chairman of the Dental Board), two
persons registered under the provisions of the Medical
Registration Ordinance, 1884, and two dental-pratitioners.

(2) The unofficial members of the Dental Board shall be
appointed by the Governor and shall hold office for three
years but may be re-appointed or removed by the Governor
at his pleasure.
(3) Three members of the Dental Board shall form a
quorum.

4.-(1) The Colonial Secretary shall keep a register of
dental surgeons qualified to practise in the Colony and
of persons exempted under the provisions of section 5 (2),
and such register shall be styled the Dental Register.

As amended by No. 15 of 1915 and Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.





(2) The Dental Register shall be as nearly as may be
according to the form in the Schedule.
(3) A copy of the Dental Register as it stands at such date
shall be published by the Colonial Secretary in the first
Gazette issued after every 3rd day of May.
(4) Any copy of the Gazette containing the most recent
copy of the Dental Register shall be prima facie evidence in
all legal proceedings that the persons therein specified are
registered dental surgeons or exempted persons, as the case
may be, under the provisions of this Ordinance, and the
absence of any name from such copy shall be prima facie
evidence that such person is not registered or exempted, as
the case may be, under the provisions of this Ordinance.

5.-(1) Any person who, on applying in writing to the
Colonial Secretary and furnishing him with such proof of
such qualifications as inay be prescribed by regulation made
under the provisions of this Ordinance, and who, in the
opinion of the Governor in Council with the advice of the
Dental Board, is a fit and proper person to be registered is
a dental surgeon, shall bc entitled to be registered in the
Dental Register.
(2) It shall be lawfull for the Governor in Council with the
advice of the Dental Board to grant a certificate exempting
from any or all of the provisions of this Ordinance any
person who, although otherwise unqualified, is, by reason if
his long practice of dentistry in the Colony prior to the 1st
day of August, 1914, or on any other ground which may be
by the Governor in Council deemed adequate, in the opinion
of the Governor in Council a person to whom exemption
from all or any of the provisions of this Ordinance may
properly be granted : Provided that any such certificate so
granted may be at any time revoked or amended in such
manner and for such cause as may by the Governor in Council
be deemed necessary ordesirable.
(3) It shall be lawful for the Colonial Secretary to remove
from the Dental Register the name of any registered dental
surgeon or exempted person who-
(a) is believed to be deceased;
(b) has ceased for a period extending over five years to
reside in the Colony;

As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.





(c) has been convicted of any felony or misdemeanor;

(d) has been in the opinion of the Dental Board and of
the Governor in Council guilty of infamous conduct in any
professional respect;

(c) being an exempted person, has had the certificate of
exemption granteed to him revoked under the provisions of
sub-section (2).

(4) It shall be lawful for the Colonial Secretary to restore
to the Dental Register at any time the name any person
by order of the Governor in Council.

No person other than a registered dental surgeon
or an exempted person shall by any public or private
advertisement or in any way whatsoever describe himself or
hold himself out as or offer his services as a dental surgeon,
Doctor of Dental Surgery, Licentiate in Dental Surgery, or
dentist, or under other like title or designation or as in any
way licensed or authorised or qualified to perform or as
otherwise capable of performing any dental operation.

(2) No person who practises dentistry or dental surgery
shall by any public or private advertisement or in any way
whatsoever describe himself or hold himself out as or offer
his services as or in any way use the title or designation
of doctor, Doctor of Dental Surgery, Licentiate in Dental
Surgery, or any other like title or designation, unless and
until he shall have proved to the satisfaction of the Governor
in Council with the advice of the Dental Board that the title
or designation which he proposes to use has been duly-
conferred upon him by some university, corporation, college
or other body which in the opinion of the Governor in Council
with the advice of the Dental Board may properly be
recognised as capable of duly conferring such title or
designation.

(3) Any registered dental surgeon or exempted person
shall be entitled to perform dental operations and to practise
dentistry and dental surgery in the Colony and to demand
and recover reasonable charges for any dental operation,
attendance, advice, or aid, and the cost ot any dental medicines,
dental appliances, dental plates or artificial dentures supplied
by him.





7.-(1) Every person who contravenes any of the provi-
sions of section 6 shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five
hundred dollars and to imprisonment for any term not
exceeding six months.

(2) Every person who fraudulently procures or attempts
to procure himself or any other person to be registered under
or exempted from the provisions of this Ordinance by
making or producing or causing to be made or produced any
false or fraudulent representation or declaration, either oral
or in writing, and every person who aids and assists him
therein shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and being convicted
thereof shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not
exceeding two years.

(3) Every person who practises dentistry or dental surgery,
under the designation of any company, association, dental
institute, dental hospital or dental college or in any other
manner than under his own name or under the name of his
firm, each member of which shall be either a registered
dental surgeon or an exempted person, shall be liable to a
fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty, dollars and to
imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months.

8. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make
regulations for any of the following purposes:-

(a) prescribing the qualifications for registration as a
dental surgeon;

(b) prescribing the conditions under which a certificate of
exemption from the provision of this Ordinance may be
applied for;

(c) prescribing the fees to be paid on registration as a
dental surgeon;

(d) prescribing the fees to be paid on the grant of a certif-
icate of exemption from the provisions of this Ordinance;
and

(c) generally for the purpose of carrying into effect the
provisions of this Ordinance.

[s. 9, rep. Law Revision Ordinance, 1924.]

As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.


SCHEDULE. [s. 4 (2).]

DENTAL REGISTER.

Name. Address. Qualification and date.

1. J. Doe. 1330 Viear Street, Licence in Dental Surgery, Eng-
Causeway Bay, land: Dated 1st December, 1896.
Kowloon.

2. R. Roe. 2146 Smith Street, Not qualified for registration but
Victoria, exempted from provisions of Ordi-
Hong Kong. nance by certificate dated 1st April,
1914, having practised in the Colony
since 7th May, 1891.

[Originally No.16 of 1914. No.15 of 1915. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title. Interpretation. Constitution of dental Board. Ordinance No. 1 of 1881. Appointment of members of Dental Board. Quorum. Dental Register. Form schedule. Annual publication in Gazette. Gazette to be evidence of registration. Special certificate of exemption to unqualified dentists of long local practice. Removal from Register: on death: on leaving Colony; after serious criminal offence; or infamous professional conduct; on revocation of exemption certificate. Restoration to Register. Unqualified persons prohibited from using incorrect or misleading titles or statements of capacity. Dental practitioners prohibited from using any title which has not been properly conferred upon them. Registered or exempted person may practise and recover charges. Penalties: for contravention of section 6: for fraudulent misrepresentation: for practising under assumed name. Regulations.

[Originally No.16 of 1914. No.15 of 1915. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title. Interpretation. Constitution of dental Board. Ordinance No. 1 of 1881. Appointment of members of Dental Board. Quorum. Dental Register. Form schedule. Annual publication in Gazette. Gazette to be evidence of registration. Special certificate of exemption to unqualified dentists of long local practice. Removal from Register: on death: on leaving Colony; after serious criminal offence; or infamous professional conduct; on revocation of exemption certificate. Restoration to Register. Unqualified persons prohibited from using incorrect or misleading titles or statements of capacity. Dental practitioners prohibited from using any title which has not been properly conferred upon them. Registered or exempted person may practise and recover charges. Penalties: for contravention of section 6: for fraudulent misrepresentation: for practising under assumed name. Regulations.

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