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"Medical authorities" means the bodies and universities who
choose members of the General Council.

REGISTRATION.

From and after the first day of August one thousand eight
3.
hundred and seventy-nine, a person shall not be entitled to take
or use the name or title of "dentist" (either alone or in combina-
tion with any other word or words), or of "dental practitioner,"
or any name, title, addition, or description implying that he
is registered under this Act, or that he is a person specially qual-
ified to practice dentistry, unless he is registered under this Act.
// is hereby declared that the words "title, addition, or description,"
where used in the Dentists Act, 1878, include a?iy title, additio?i to a
name, designation or description, whether expressed in words or by
letters, or partly in oneway and partly i?i the other.
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 descrip-
tion as aforesaid, shall be liable on summary conviction, to a fine
not exceeding twenty pounds; provided that nothing in this sec-
tion shall apply to legally qualified medical practitioners.
4. With respect to the offence of a person not registered un-
der this Act taking or using any name, title, addition, or descrip-
tion as above in this Act mentioned, the following provisions

shall have effect:
( 1.) He shall not be guilty of an offence under this Act
(a.) If he shows that he is not ordinarily resident in
the United Kingdom, and that he holds a quali-
fication which entitled him to practice dentistry
or dental surgery in a British possession or for-
eign country, and that he did not represent him-
self to be registered under this Act; or

(b.) If he shows that he has been registered and con-
tinues to be entitled to be registered under this
Act, but that his name has been erased on the
ground only that he has ceased to practice.
(2.) A prosecution for such offence shall be instituted only
as hereinafter mentioned.
If a person takes or uses the designation of any qualification
or certificate in relation to dentistry or dental surgery which he
does not possess, he shall be liable, on summary conviction on