Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

VETERINARY SURGEONS (AMENDMENT) (NO. 48 OF 1994) - NOTES

NOTE

1. Reprinted as at 30 June 1991. See also Act No. 14, 1993.

NOTE ABOUT SECTION HEADING

On the day on which the Veterinary Surgeons Registration Act 1965 is amended by this Act, the heading to section 30 of that Act is altered by omitting “in his own name” and substituting “under registered name”.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 16 June 1994]

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TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Section

4A. Competence to practise veterinary surgery

4B. Impairment

Division 1—Qualifications for registration

8. Entitlement to registration as a veterinary surgeon

9. Entitlement to registration as a specialist veterinary surgeon

10. Registration under mutual recognition principle

10A. Registration at discretion of Board

10B. Interim registration

10C. Conditions of registration in cases of impairment

10D. Refusal of registration where applicant convicted of offence

10E. Refusal of registration where applicant deregistered under foreign law

10F. Applicants to be competent and of good character

10G. Restriction on registration of deregistered or suspended persons

Division 2—Registration procedure

10H. Applications for registration

10J. Applications to be considered and determined

10K. Registration of applicants

10L. Fee for registration pursuant to Mutual Recognition Act

10M. Conditions of registration

Division 3—Registers

12. Register of Specialist Veterinary Surgeons

13. Particulars to be entered in Register of Veterinary Surgeons

14. Particulars to be entered in Register of Specialist Veterinary Surgeons

15. Certificate of registration

16. Change of address to be notified

20. Deregistration as a specialist veterinary surgeon on basis of deregistration as a veterinary surgeon

21. Suspension as a specialist veterinary surgeon on basis of suspension as a veterinary surgeon

22. Deregistration on basis of disciplinary action under foreign law

23. Imposition of conditions imposed under foreign law

24. Cessation of registration

Division 4—Annual fees

25. Annual fee payable by registered veterinary surgeon

25A. Annual fee payable by registered specialist veterinary surgeon

25B. Registration to be cancelled for non-payment

25C. Entitlement to re-registration on payment of fees

PART IV—DISCIPLINARY PROCEDURES

25D. Cancellation or suspension of registration

25E. Cancellation, suspension or restriction of right of practise on health grounds

25F. Practising when registration suspended

25G. Power of Board to caution, reprimand etc.

25H. Power of Board to impose fines

25J. Inquiry by Board

25K. Effect of suspension and conditions

PART VA—APPEALS

35. Review of decisions

36. Notification of decisions

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Veterinary Surgeons (Amendment)
Act 1994

No. 48 of 1994

[Notified in ACT Gazette S196: 5 October 1994]