This Act may be cited as the Dentists Amendment Act, 1910, and shall form part of and be read together with the Dentists Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

Any person may apply to be registered as a dentist, and shall on payment of the prescribed fee be entitled to be so registered, who has passed an examination in dentistry by a Dental Board constituted under the Dentists Act, 1880, or who passes an examination in dentistry as prescribed by that Act by a competent Board set up by the Minister of Internal Affairs, if such person was at the time of, or within fifteen months subsequent to, the passing of the Dentists Act, 1904, bona fide an apprentice of a dentist, or was at the time of the passing of the Dentists Act, 1904, bona fide in practice as a dentist in New Zealand.

No application for registration under this section shall be entertained unless made to the Registrar-General within three months after the coming into operation of this Act, and no person shall be registered under this Act after the thirtieth day of September, nineteen hundred and eleven.

Any person who on the coming into operation of the Dentists Act, 1904, was entitled to be registered under paragraph (d) of section ten of that Act, but failed to apply for registration within the time limited by that paragraph, may make application to the Registrar- General not later than the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and eleven, and the Registrar-General, if satisfied as to the qualification of the applicant as aforesaid, and on payment of the prescribed fee, shall enter his name on the register.

Section twenty-one of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting the words “coming into operation,” and substituting the word “passing.”