Dentists Act, 1928

Persons entitled to be registered after the establishment of the register.

27.—(1) After the establishment of the register the following persons shall, on making the prescribed application and paying the prescribed fees, be entitled (save as is otherwise provided by this section) to be registered in the register, that is to say:—

(a) every person who is at the time of such application registered in the General Dentists Register, and

(b) every person who is at the time of such application possessed of a degree or licence in dental surgery granted by a university or college in Saorstát Eireann having, at the time of such degree or licence, power to grant the same.

(2) No person whose name shall have been erased from the register by the Board on account of his having been convicted of treason or a felony, misdemeanour, crime, or offence or by direction of the Medical Council on account of his having been judged guilty of infamous or disgraceful conduct in a professional respect shall be entitled to have his name restored to the register under this section solely by reason of his being registered in the General Dentists Register.

(3) A person not previously registered in the register shall not be entitled to be registered therein under this section if at any time before his application for such registration his name has been erased from the General Dentists Register on account of his having been convicted of a felony, misdemeanour, crime, or offence or his having been judged guilty of infamous or disgraceful conduct in a professional respect.