South Australian Current Acts South Australian Current Acts39—Prohibition on provision of veterinary treatment for fee or reward by
unqualified persons
(1) A person must not
provide veterinary treatment for fee or reward unless, at the time the
treatment was provided—
(a) the
person was a qualified person; or
(b) the
person provided the treatment through the instrumentality of a
qualified person.
Maximum penalty: $20 000 or imprisonment for 6 months.
(2)
Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to—
(a)
veterinary treatment provided by an employee of the owner of the animal in the
course of that employment; or
(b)
veterinary treatment provided by an unqualified person in prescribed
circumstances; or
(c)
veterinary treatment provided pursuant to an exemption under
subsection (3).
(3) The Governor may,
by proclamation, exempt a person from subsection (1) if of the opinion
that good reason exists for doing so in the particular circumstances of the
case.
(4) An exemption under
subsection (3) may be subject to such conditions as the Governor thinks
fit.
(5) A person who
contravenes, or fails to comply with, a condition of an exemption under this
section is guilty of an offence.
Maximum penalty: $20 000.
(6) The Governor may,
by proclamation, vary or revoke a proclamation under this section.
(7) In this
section—
"qualified person", in relation to veterinary treatment, means a person
authorised by or under this Act or any other Act to provide that treatment.