### Dentists Registration Ordinance 《牙醫註冊條例》

10. Certificate of registration
(1) When a person has been registered, the Council shall issue to him a certificate of registration in such form as may be prescribed. 
(2) A registered dentist who requires a certified copy of his certificate of registration in order to comply with the provisions of section 14(1) shall apply in writing to the Registrar enclosing one passport size photograph and stating the address of the premises at which he proposes to practise, and the Registrar may thereupon issue to the registered dentist a certified copy of his certificate of registration. 
(3) (a) The registered address appearing upon the certificate of registration shall be the principal address at which the registered dentist carries on his practice; 
(b) every registered dentist shall report to the Registrar every address at which he carries on the practice of dentistry for gain; 
(c) every registered dentist shall report to the Registrar any change of his registered address or the change of any other address at which he carries on the practice of dentistry for gain within 2 months of such change; 
(d) upon a report of any change of a registered address being made to the Registrar in accordance with paragraph (c) the Registrar shall cause the registered address upon the certificate of registration or upon any certified copy thereof or upon both such certificate of registration and upon such certified copy thereof as the case may be to be amended accordingly; 
(e) any registered dentist who fails to make a report in accordance with paragraph (b) or (c) commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine at level 1. (Amended 68 of 1986 s. 10; E.R. 7 of 2020) 
(4) If a certificate of registration has been lost, destroyed or defaced, the registered dentist may apply in writing to the Registrar to issue to him a duplicate certificate of registration and the Registrar upon being satisfied as to such loss, destruction or defacement, shall issue to the registered dentist a duplicate certificate of registration in the same form as is prescribed for a certificate of registration, marked on the face thereof with the word “duplicate”. 
(5) If it appears to the Registrar that a certificate of registration or a certified copy of a certificate of registration is defaced or that the photograph thereon is not a reasonable likeness of the registered dentist to whom the certificate of registration relates the Registrar by notice in writing may require the registered dentist to lodge his certificate of registration or certified copy, as the case may be, with the Registrar and to apply for the issue of a duplicate certificate of registration or of another certified copy, and any registered dentist who on being so required fails to do so within 7 days of the service of such notice commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine at level 1. (Amended 68 of 1986 s. 10; E.R. 7 of 2020)

### Dentists Registration Ordinance 《牙醫註冊條例》

11. Privileges of registered dentists
(1) Subject to section 11A(7), every registered dentist shall be entitled to recover in due course of law reasonable charges for professional aid, advice and visits and the value of any medicine or any dental or medical appliances rendered, made or supplied by him to his patients. (Amended 49 of 1977 s. 5) 
(2) No person shall be entitled to recover in any court any such charges as are referred to in subsection (1) unless at the date when such charges accrued he was a registered dentist.

### Dentists Registration Ordinance 《牙醫註冊條例》

11B. Recovery of practising fees
(1) If any person to whom section 11A applies contravenes subsection (1) of that section, the amount of the prescribed fee payable by him under subsection (2) of that section shall be recoverable as a civil debt. 
(2) In any proceedings under this section a certificate purporting to be under the hand of the Secretary to the effect that the person concerned had not paid the prescribed fee for the issue of a practising certificate shall, until the contrary is proved, be evidence of non-payment of the fee. 
(3) On recovery of a prescribed fee under this section the Secretary shall, if the name of the person concerned appears on the General Register or if he is deemed to be a registered dentist under section 30(3)(a), issue to him an appropriate practising certificate. (Replaced 62 of 1987 s. 5. Amended 11 of 2006 s. 9) 
(Added 49 of 1977 s. 6. Amended 62 of 1987 s. 5)

### Dentists Registration Ordinance 《牙醫註冊條例》

12. Dental companies
(1) A body corporate may carry on the business of dentistry if—
(a) it carries on no business other than dentistry or some business ancillary to the business of dentistry; and
(b)  a majority of the directors and all persons practising dentistry are registered dentists:
Provided that a body corporate which was carrying on the business of dentistry before the date of commencement* of this Ordinance shall not be disqualified from carrying on the business of dentistry under this section by reason only that it carries on some business other than dentistry or a business ancillary to that business, if that other business is a business which the body was lawfully entitled at the date of coming into operation of this Ordinance to carry on. 
(2) Save as aforesaid it shall not be lawful for any body corporate to carry on the business of dentistry, and any body corporate which carries on the business of dentistry in contravention of the provisions of this section and every director and manager thereof, subject to subsection (2A), commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine at level 1 for each offence. (Amended 68 of 1986 s. 11; E.R. 7 of 2020)
(2A) Where a person is charged with an offence under subsection (2) by reason of being a director or manager, it shall be a defence for him to prove that the offence alleged to be committed by the body corporate was committed without his knowledge. (Added 68 of 1986 s. 11)
(3) Every body corporate carrying on the business of dentistry shall within 7 days of 1 January in every year transmit to the Registrar a statement in the prescribed form containing the names and addresses of all persons who are directors or managers of the company, or who perform dental operations in connection with the business of the company, and, if any such body corporate fails so to do, it shall be deemed to be carrying on the business of dentistry in contravention of the provisions of this section.
(4) Nothing in this section shall prevent the carrying on of the business of dentistry by the operating staff of any hospital of any description (including an institution for out-patients only), or of any dental school, which is approved for the purposes of this section by the Chief Executive in Council. (Amended 37 of 2000 s. 3)

Editorial Note:
* Commencement date: 1 October 1959.

12A. Qualification for inclusion in Specialist Register
The Council may approve the qualifications, experience and other attributes recommended by the Education and Accreditation Committee that qualify a registered dentist to have his name included in the Specialist Register under a specialty.
(Added 11 of 2006 s. 10)