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either before the second notice is sent receives the first notice
back from the dead letter office of the Postmaster General, or
receives the second notice back from that office, or does not
within three months after sending the second notice receive any
answer thereto from the said person, that person shall, for the
purpose of the present section, be deemed to have ceased to prac-
tice and his name may be erased accordingly.

(4.) In the execution of his duties the general registrar shall
act on such evidence as in each case appears sufficient.
13. The General Council shall cause to be erased from the
dentists' register any entry which has been incorrectly or fraudu-
lently made.
Where a person registered in the dentists' register has, either
before or after the passing of this Act, and either before or after
he is so registered, been convicted either in Her Majesty's do-
minions or elsewhere of an offence which, if committed in Eng-
land, would be a felony or misdemeanor, or been guilty of any
infamous or disgraceful conduct in a professional respect, that
person shall be liable to have his name erased from the register.
The General Council may, and upon application of any of the
medical authorities shall, cause inquiry to be made into the case
of a person alleged to be liable to have his name erased under
this section, and, on proof of such conviction or of such infamous
or disgraceful conduct, shall cause the name of such person to be
erased from the register:
Provided, that the name of a person shall not be erased under
this section on account of his adopting or refraining from adopt-
ing the practice of any particular theory of dentistry or dental
surgery, nor on account of a conviction for a political offence out
of Her Majesty's dominions, nor on account of a conviction for
an offence which, though within the provisions of this section r
does not, either from the trivial nature of the offence or from
the circumstances under which it was committed, disqualify a
person for practicing dentistry.
Any name erased from the register in pursuance of this sec-
tion shall also be erased from the list of licentiates in dental sur-
gery or dentistry of the medical authority of which such person
is a licentiate.
14. Where the General Council direct the erasure from the
dentists' register of the name of any person, or of any other entry,
the name of that person, or that entry, shall not be again entered
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