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Any authority in a1[State]2[**] which grants a qualification for dental hygienists may apply to the Council to have such qualification, recognised,3and the Council may, after such inquiry, if any, as it thinks fit, and after consulting the Government and the1[State] Council of the1[State] in which the authority making the application is situated, declare that such qualification, or such qualification only when granted after a specified date, shall be a recognised dental hygiene qualification for the purposes of this Act.
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1. Substituted for the word 'Provincial' by A.L.O., 1950.
2. The words "of India" were omitted, by the Demists (Amdt.) Act. 1993 (30 of 1993). S. 2 (w.r.e.f. 27-8-1992).
3. Such qualification granted by the Dental Wing, Armed Forces Medical College, Poona, the Dental College, Trivendrum and the Dental College and Hospital, Lucknow and M.D.S. degrees of Bangalore and Lucknow Universities have been so recognised -