Western Australian Current Regulations Western Australian Current Regulations (1) For the purposes
of section 79(c) of the Act, the following are professional
misconduct —
(a)
assaulting, resisting, obstructing, hindering, threatening or insulting the
Board or a person referred to in section 160(1) of the Act, when the
Board or the person is carrying out a function under the Act;
(b)
signing or giving a certificate, notice, report or other similar document, in
connection with the practice of veterinary medicine, that the practitioner
knows is false or misleading in a material particular;
(c)
publishing an advertisement in connection with the practice of veterinary
medicine that the practitioner knows is false or misleading in a material
particular;
(d)
conduct set out in subregulation (3);
(e)
failing to comply with a requirement under regulation 25K.
(2) Despite
subregulation (1)(b), giving a document that the practitioner knows is
false or misleading is not professional misconduct if —
(a) the
document is given in compliance with a direction under
section 94(1)(a)(ii) or 115(2)(a) of the Act and the practitioner
indicates —
(i)
that the document is false or misleading; and
(ii)
to the extent the practitioner can, how the document is
false or misleading;
or
(b) the
document is given under section 196 of the Act.
(3) For the purposes
of subregulation (1)(d), a practitioner engages in professional
misconduct if the practitioner —
(a)
fails to prevent the publication of an advertisement in connection with a
veterinary practice business that the practitioner knows is false or
misleading in a material particular; and
(b) is
either —
(i)
if the veterinary practice business has a practice owner
who is a practitioner — the practice owner; or
(ii)
otherwise — the veterinary supervisor for the
veterinary premises at or from which the veterinary practice business is
carried on.
[Regulation 25I inserted: SL 2025/92
r. 25.]
[Heading inserted: SL 2025/92 r. 25.]