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* DENTISTS (AMENDMENT) BILL
The Minister of Law (Dr. Ambedkar) : As the Hon. the Health Minister is ill, I am asked to take charge of this Bill and I therefore beg to move :
“That the Bill to amed the Dentists Act, 1948, be taken into consideration.”
The Bill is a very short one and it does not involve any controversial matters. The Dentists Act of 1948 came into force on the 29th of March 1948. It was made applicable to Part A, Part C and Part D States. Under Section 49 of that Act, it is provided that no person shall be entitled to practise dentistry after the 28th March 1950 unless his name appears on a register of dentists which the Act required should be prepared in accordance with the rules contained therein. It was hoped that that register would be ready by the 28th of March 1950. Consequently, the operative portions of this Act were so framed as to come into operation on the 28th March
- Unfortunately, this expectation has not been fulfilled. It was reported from various States that the register would not be ready by the 28th March 1950 and consequently it became necessary to extend the period by one year in order to enable the States concerned to prepare the register. As the Parliament was not then sitting, Government issued an Ordinance giving effect to the necessary provision expending the period up to the 28th March 1951. This Bill is intended to convert the Ordinance into law. The main provision therefore is to extend the period for the purpose of preparing the register.
Advantage has been taken of the present occasion to amend the law in order to remove some of the difficulties which have been felt in giving effect to the original Act. Firstly, the
- P .D. Vol. 4, Part II, 11th August 1950, p. 841.