Australian Capital Territory Numbered Regulations

VETERINARY SURGEONS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) REGULATION 2016 (NO 13 OF 2016) - REG 3

The Act, part 20 applies as if the following section were inserted:

‘205A     Grounds for occupational discipline

    (1)     This section applies to a veterinary surgeon who was a veterinary surgeon under the repealed Act

immediately before the commencement day.

    (2)     Each of the following is taken to be a ground for occupational discipline under section 59 (Grounds for occupational discipline), in relation to the veterinary surgeon:

        (a)     the veterinary surgeon contravened, before the commencement day, a standard of practice that applied to the veterinary surgeon under the repealed Act

;

        (b)     the veterinary surgeon, before the commencement day, put public safety at risk;

        (c)     the veterinary surgeon, before the commencement day, did not satisfy the suitability to practise requirements for a veterinary surgeon under the repealed Act

.

    (3)     This section expires on the day the Veterinary Surgeons (Transitional Provisions) Regulation 2016 expires.'