Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

VETERINARY SURGEONS ACT 2015 (NO. 29 OF 2015) - SECT 139

    (1)     The Executive may make regulations for this Act.

Note     A regulation must be notified, and presented to the Legislative Assembly, under the Legislation Act

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    (2)     A regulation may impose conditions, including restrictions, on the practice of veterinary surgery to protect the public or the public interest.

    (3)     A regulation may prescribe offences for contraventions of a regulation and prescribe maximum penalties of not more than 30 penalty units for offences against a regulation.

    (4)     A regulation may prescribe—

        (a)     what an application for registration may require and how it must be made; and

        (b)     when someone who is not required to be registered under section 14 (1) may be registered conditionally; and

        (c)     when (in addition to the circumstances already prescribed under this Act) the board may apply for—

              (i)     the suspension or cancellation of registration; or

              (ii)     a declaration under section 62 (2) (f) (which is about a person who is not registered); and

        (d)     when a veterinary surgeon's registration may be renewed, including when it may be renewed retrospectively.

    (5)     Also, a regulation may apply, adopt or incorporate (with or without change) an instrument as in force at a particular time or from time to time.