I move:—
18a. In page 10, Section 28 (1), line 58, to delete the words "by the board for the purpose" and to substitute the words "under this section."
18b. In page 10, Section 28 (1), line 58, to delete the word "seven" and substitute the word "two."
18c. In page 10, Section 28, line 62, before sub-section 2, to insert 6 new sub-sections as follows:—
"(2) The first examination under this section shall be prescribed and held after the expiration of five months and before the expiration of six months from the passing of this Act.
(3) Any of the persons named in the Second Schedule may (unless he has aready passed an examination prescribed and held under this section) demand that such an examination be held, and may make such demand at any time after the holding of the first such examination and not less than one month before the expiration of two years from the passing of this Act.
(4) Whenever an examination is demanded under this section an examination shall be prescribed and held under this section as soon thereafter as conveniently may be, or where an examination has been held under this section within six months before such demand, at the expiration of such six months and public notice of such examination shall be given and every one of the persons named in the Second Schedule to this Act shall be entitled to attend and be examined at such examination.
(5) Before the establishment of the Board a demand for an examination under this section shall be made in writing to the Minister, and after the establishment of the Board, such a demand shall be made in writing to the Board.
(6) Before the establishment of the Board every examination to be prescribed and held under this section shall be prescribed and held by the Minister, and after the establishment of the Board every such examination shall be prescribed and held by the Board.
(7) Nothing in this Act shall operate to prohibit any of the persons named in the Second Schedule to this Act from practising or representing himself or holding himself out as practising or prepared to practise dentistry or dental surgery during the period between the passing of this Act and the publication of the results of the first examination held under this Section.
We have come to certain agreement with regard to amendments 18 and 19, and in order to get the force of the agreement properly before the House I suggested that we should report progress last night, and I now suggest the amendments, typescript copies of which have been circulated in the House, in order to meet what was put forward last night. The effect of the insertion of these amendments in the sub-section and the deletion of certain words brings about this position, that the period within which the persons mentioned in the Third Schedule must take out examinations has been reduced from 7 years to 2; that those on the Second Schedule are allowed to continue in practice without taking any examinations for a period of six months after the passing of the Act, and that the examination must be held not earlier than five and not later than six months. Those who succeed at that examination, of course, go on the register and those who do not succeed go out of practice—go off the register— but may attend such examinations as are held up to an extreme period of 2 years after the passing of the Act.
The new sub-sections (3), (4), (5) and (6) are to give these people the right to demand an examination within the six months' period and every six months after that up to two years.