Any medical authority who have power for the time being to grant surgical degrees may, notwithstanding anything in any enactment, charter or other document, hold examinations in dentistry and grant licences certifying the fitness of the holders to practise dentistry; and the holders’ names shall be entered on a list of licentiates in dentistry to be kept by the medical authority.

Subsection (1) above is without prejudice to any power to grant a degree or licence in dentistry which a medical authority may possess apart from the provisions of this Act.

In this section “medical authority” means any of the universities or other bodies who choose appointed members of the General Medical Council, F1...

References in this Act to a dental authority are references to a medical authority who grant degrees, licences or other diplomas in dentistry.