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REVIEW OF DENTISTRY. 381

forty-two Victoria, chapter thirty-three, or of one or
more such persons, and who has been continuously
and wholly engaged during that period in studying
the theory and practice of dentistry or dental sur-
gery, and who within one year after the expiration of
the said period of apprenticeship or pupilage shall
have obtained a certificate under the eleventh section
of the said Act.
(2) Any person who shall satisfy the Registrar-General that
he has been continuously engaged in the practice of
dentistry or dental surgery in New Zealand for the
period of five years immediately preceding the com-
ing into operation of the said Act.
4. In all cases when any persons shall apply to be registered
under the said Act, the Registrar-General may examine any such
applicant and any person whom he may deem capable of giving
evidence respecting such applicant, and may conduct any such
examination upon oath, and for such purpose may administer
oaths; and he may decline to register such person if for any
reason he is of opinion that such applicant is not really entitled
to be registered under the said Act.
Provided that any person whose application has been refused
under this section may appeal to a Judge of the Supreme Court
on summons in a summary way; and such Judge may either order
the Registrar-General to register such applicant, or may, support
the Registrar-General's decision, and may in his discretion award
costs against the Registrar-General, or against the said appli-
cant.
If any person shall have procured himself to be registered
5.
by making or producing, or causing to be made or produced, any
false or fraudulent representation or declaration, either verbally
or in writing, or if any person not entitled to be registered shall
have been registered, or if any registered person shall be con-
victed of any felony or misdemeanor in Great Britain or Ire-
land, or in any of the British Dominions, the Registrar-General
shall erase the name of any such person from the register, and
such erasure shall be notified by the Registrar-General in the
New Zealand Gazette.
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6. The words " any Registrar w ho," in the first line of the
seventeenth section of the said Act, are hereby struck out, and
the words " If the Registrar-General " inserted in place thereof,