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An Act to Provide for the Registration of Dentists
Qualified to Practice in New Zealand.

[August 28, 1880.]
Whereas, It is desirable to provide for the registration of

persons practicing as dentists:
Be it Therefore Enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in
Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. The Short Title of this Act is "The Dentists' Act, 1880."
2. In this Act, if not inconsistent with the context:
"Senate" means the Senate of the University of New Zea-
land;
"Dentist" means a person registered under this Act;
"Registration" and "Registered," respectively, mean regis-
tration under this Act and registered under this Act;
"The said Act" means and includes the Imperial Act, 41
and 42 Vict., cap. 33, and entitled "The Dentists Act,
1878;"
"Registrar-General" means the Registrar-General of Births,
Deaths and Marriages.
From and after the first day of June, one thousand eight
3.
hundred and eighty-one, a person other than a legally qualified
medical practitioner shall not be entitled to take or use the name or
title of dentist (either alone or in combination with other words)
or of dental practitioner, or any name, title, addition, or descrip-
tion implying that he is registered under this Act, or that he is a
person specially qualified to practice dentistry, unless he is regis-
tered under this Act.
Any person who, after the first day of June, one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-one, not being registered under this
Act, takes or uses any such name, title, addition, or description
as aforesaid, shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not
exceeding twenty pounds: Provided that nothing in this section
shall apply to any person registered under the said Act, or to any
legally qualified medical practitioner.
4. A pjprson registered under this Act shall be entitled to
practice dentistry and dental surgery in any part of New Zealand;
and from and after the first day of June, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-one, a person shall not be entitled to recover
any fee or charge in any court for the performance of any dental
operation or for any dental attendance or advice, unless he is