Dentists Act, 1928

Foreign dental practitioners.

30.—(1) Any person who was trained and is for the time being registered as a dentist, dental surgeon, or surgeon dentist in any British possession, self-governing dominion, or foreign country which is for the time being recognised by the Board for the purposes of this section, shall be entitled, on making the prescribed application and paying the prescribed fees, to be registered in the register.

(2) The Board may recognise for the purposes of this section any British possession, self-governing dominion, or foreign country in which there is in force at the time of such recognition legislation—

(a) providing for the registration by a public authority of persons engaged in the practice of dentistry, and

(b) requiring for such registration a standard of training and knowledge which is in the opinion of the Board not lower than the standard of training and knowledge necessary for obtaining the right to be registered under this Act, and

(c) providing for the admission of persons registered under this Act to registration under such legislation on terms which in the opinion of the Board are reasonably equivalent to the terms on which persons registered under such legislation are admitted to registration under this Act.

(3) The Board may at any time cease to recognise for the purposes of this section any British possession, self-governing dominion, or foreign country previously so recognised.

(4) Persons registered in the register under this section are in this Act referred to as foreign practitioners.