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fied medical practitioner shall be entitled to take or use the
name or title of "dentist" or of "dental practitioner" or of
" dental surgeon " or any name title addition or description im-
plying that he is registered under this Act or that he is a person
specially qualified to practice dentistry (either alone or in com-

bination with any other word or words) unless he be registered
under this Act.
Any person who after the first day of March, one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-eight, not being a person registered
under this Act or a legally qualified medical practitioner takes
or uses any such name title addition or description as afore-
said shall be liable on conviction to a penalty not exceeding
twenty pounds.

17. Every person registered under this Act and every legally
qualified medical practitioner shall be entitled to practice dental
surgery and dentistry in any part of Victoria, and to sue in any
court of law within Victoria to the extent of the jurisdiction of
such court for the recovery of his fees or other remuneration
of his professional services in dentistry or in the performance of
any dental operation or for any dental attendance or advice,
and it shall be sufficient to state in the particulars or demand
the words " for dental services," which shall include every de-
mand for any dental operation attendance and advice and for
any articles supplied by the plaintiff to the defendant for dental
purposes. From and after the first day of March, one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-eight, no person shall be entitled to
recover any fee or charge in any court of law for the perform-
ance of any dental operation or for any dental attendance or
advice, or shall hold any appointment as a dentist or dental
practitioner or dental surgeon in any hospital, infirmary, dis-
pensary or lying-in-hospital or in any lunatic asylum, gaol, peni-
tentiary or other public institution, unless he is registered under
this Act or is a legally qualified medical practitioner.
18. Any person who
{a) Is registered or is entitled to be registered in the
United Kingdom in accordance with the law for the

time being in force therein as a dentist or medical
practitioner:
(d) Is entitled as hereinafter mentioned to be registered
under this Act as a dentist:
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