Veterinary Surgeons Act Amendment Act 1923 (WA)

VETERINARY SURGEONS.

14° GEO. V., No. XXV.

No. 46 of 1923.

AN ACT to amend the Veterinary Surgeons Act, 1911.

[Assented to 22nd December, 1923.]

DE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, byCouncil and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, inand with the advice and consent of the Legislative

this present Parliam°nt assembled, and by the authority of

the same, as follows:

1. This Act may be cited he; the Veterinary Surgeons Act Amendment Act, 1923, and shall be read as one with the Veterinary Surgeons Act, 1911, hereinafter referred to as the principal Act. Short title.

No. 46.] Veterinary Surgeons. [1923.

Amendment of 2. Section twenty-five of the principal Act is amended by

Section 25.

adding thereto a subsection, as follows:-

Permits to

unregistered	6. Provided, also, that the Board may, and if the
Veterinary

Surgeons.	Minister so directs shall, on payment of the prescribed fee, issue to any person a permit in writing whereby it shall be lawful for such person to perform and give for
reward any veterinary service, operation, or advice, if
and so long as no registered veterinary surgeon resides and practises veterinary surgery within thirty miles of the residence of such person, and of the place where such veterinary service, operation, or advice is performed or given; and in such case paragraphs (a) and (c) of sub- section (1) of this section shall not apply to such person.
If any person to whom such permit is issued shall, after due inquiry by the Board, be adjudged by the Board to be incompetent, or to have been guilty of such conduct as if committed by a registered veterinary surgeon would justify the Board in removing his name from the regis- ter, or if at any time a registered veterinary surgeon re- sides and is in practice within the area to which the per- mit extends, the Board may revoke , the permit.
It is further provided that any reputable person who, prior to the great war, had undergone not less than three years' training in a veterinary hospital in this State, efficiently equipped and maintained for the treatment of the diseases and injuries of the domesticated animals, and who subsequently served abroad with the Austra- lian Imperial Forces, shall, on satisfactory proof of such facts being given to the Board, be registered as a veter- inary practitioner in accordance with the provisions of the principal Act : Provided always that application under this amendment shall be made within six months from the date of its becoming law.