2. In this Act -

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"Board" means the Medical Board appointed under section 9;

"dentist" means any person professing to practise dentistry or holding himself out as ready and will-ing to treat patients for gain;

"medical practitioner" means any person profes-sing to practise medicine or surgery, or holding himself out as ready and willing to treat patients for gain;

"practise dentistry'' means to perform any such operation, to give any such treatment, advice, or attendance as is usually performed or given by dentists, and any person who performs any opera-tion or gives any treatment, advice, or attendance, on or to any person as preparatory to, or for the purpose of, or in connection with the fitting, inser-tion, or fixing of artificial teeth, shall be deemed to practise dentistry;

"practise medicine or surgery" means to give medical or surgical treatment or advice on one or more occasions for gain;

Interpreta-tion

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Medical Practitioners and Dentists

Register to be kept

Director of

Medical Ser-vices to be

Registrar

"Registrar" means the Registrar of Medical Practi-tioners and Dentists appointed under section 4;

"the service" means the Government Medical Ser-vice.