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point a member of the General Council to fill the vacancy until
the next meeting of that Council.
A committee under this section may, for the purpose of the
execution of their duties under this Act, employ at the expense
of the Council such legal or other assessor or assistants as the
committee think necessary or proper.
16. There shall be payable in respect of the registration of any
person who, before the first day of January, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-nine, applies to be registered under this
Act, a fee not exceeding two pounds; and in respect of the regis-
tration of any person who after that day applies to be registered,
a fee not exceeding five pounds.
17. Subject to the provisions of this Act, the General Coun-
cil may from time to time make, alter, and revoke such orders
and regulations as they may see fit for regulating the general
register and the local registers, and the practice of registration
under this Act and the fees to be paid in respect thereof.

EXAMINATIONS.

18. Notwithstanding anything in any Act of Parliament, char-
ter, or other document, it shall be lawful for any of the medical
authorities (hereinafter referred to as colleges or bodies) who have
power for the time being to grant surgical degrees, from time to
time to hold examinations for the purpose of testing the fitness of
persons to practice dentistry or dental surgery who maybe desirous
of being so examined, and to grant certificates of such fitness; and
any person who obtains such a certificate from any of those col-
leges or bodies shall be a licentiate in dental surgery or dentistry
of such college or body, and his name shall be entered on a list
of such licentiates to be kept by such college or body
Each of the said colleges or bodies shall admit to the exam-
inations held by them respectively under this section any person
desirous of being examined who has attained the age of twenty-
one years, and has complied with the regulations in force (if any)
as to education of such college or body.
19. Subject to the provisions hereinafter contained with
reference to a medical board, the council or other the governing
body of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and of
the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, and of the
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and of any university in the
United Kingdom, respectively, may from time to time appoint a