Veterinary Surgeons Act 1986 Veterinary Surgeons Amendment (Serious Misconduct) Regulation 2000 (2000-400) [GG No 97 of 28.7.2000, p 6624] (NSW)

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Veterinary Surgeons Amendment New South Wales

(Serious Misconduct) Regulation 2000

under the

Veterinary Surgeons Act 1986

His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1986.

RICHARD AMERY, M.P.,

Minister for Agriculture

Explanatory note
The object of this Regulation is to prescribe, in the Veterinary Surgeons Regulation 1995, certain provisions of the veterinary surgeons’ code of professional conduct established under section 23 of the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1986 (the Act) for the purposes of section 22A (1) (d) of the Act. A veterinary surgeon’s breach of a provision prescribed for the purposes of that paragraph constitutes serious misconduct in a professional respect.

The provisions concerned deal with:

(a)	the signing of certificates relating to the performance of a veterinary service, and
(b)	drugs, antibiotics and other chemical or biological substances.

As those provisions are already prescribed, under section 22 of the Act, as provisions a breach of which constitutes misconduct in a professional respect, this Regulation also makes the necessary consequential amendment.

This Regulation also makes minor formal changes to clause 10 of the Veterinary Surgeons Regulation 1995 (replacing “bullets” with alphabetical listing and semi- colons with commas) for consistency with current drafting style.

Published in Gazette No 97 of 28 July 2000, page 6624	Page 1
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Explanatory note

This Regulation is made under the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1986, including sections 22A (Serious misconduct in a professional respect) and 71 (the general regulation-making power).

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Veterinary Surgeons Amendment (Serious Misconduct) Regulation 2000	Clause 1
Veterinary Surgeons Amendment (Serious Misconduct) Regulation 2000

1     Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Veterinary Surgeons Amendment (Serious

Misconduct) Regulation 2000.

2 Commencement

This Regulation commences on 1 August 2000.

3 Amendment of Veterinary Surgeons Regulation 1995

The Veterinary Surgeons Regulation 1995 is amended as set out in

Schedule 1.

4 Notes

The explanatory note does not form part of this Regulation.

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Schedule 1	Amendments
Schedule 1	Amendments

(Clause 3)

[1]     Clause 10 veterinary surgeons’ code of professional conduct

Omit from clause 10 (2):

• rule 2;

• rule 3 (1);

• rule 4;

• rule 5 (1)–(5) and (9)–(12);

• rule 6;

• rule 8.

Insert instead:

(a)	rule 2,
(b)	rule 3 (1),
(c)	rule 4,
(d)	rule 5 (1)–(5) and (9), (10) and (12),
(e)	rule 8.

[2]     Clause 10 (3)

Insert after clause 10 (2):

(3)

For the purposes of section 22A (1) (d) of the Act, breaches of the following provisions of the professional conduct code are serious misconduct in a professional respect:

(a)	rule 5 (11),
(b)	rule 6.

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