Veterinary Surgeons Act 1987

The Board may provisionally register a person as a veterinary surgeon – if it is satisfied that the person has completed a course referred to in section 5A(3) and such examinations as the Board may determine but has not yet been admitted to a qualification approved under section 5A or been granted a certificate of completion of such courses or examinations; if it is satisfied that if the person had been so admitted or had been granted such a certificate he would be entitled to be registered as a veterinary surgeon; and upon the payment of the relevant fee.

Where the Board has provisionally registered a person under subsection (1), that provisional registration continues in operation until – 6 months after the next meeting of the university or institution at which a qualification approved under section 5A may be awarded to the person; or that person becomes registered as a veterinary surgeon under this Part – whichever occurs first.

Notwithstanding subsection (2), the Board may, at any time and without affecting the subsequent right of a person to apply for registration as a veterinary surgeon, cancel the provisional registration of that person.

Where a person who is provisionally registered under this section becomes registered as a veterinary surgeon under this Part, the amount of the fee paid by him in respect of provisional registration shall be deducted from the relevant fee to be paid by him in respect of full registration for the first year of that full registration.

The provisional registration of an applicant referred to in subsection (1) may be made subject to such conditions, limitations, and restrictions as the Board determines when considering the application and specifies in the provisional registration of the applicant.

Subject to such conditions, limitations, and restrictions as may be imposed under subsection (5), provisional registration under this section has the same effect as if it were registration under section 18 and the provisions of this Act apply accordingly.

A person who is provisionally registered under this section and performs any act or does any thing in carrying on the practice of veterinary surgery in contravention of a condition, limitation, or restriction to which his provisional registration is subject is guilty of an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding 10 penalty units.

The Board must give notice to a person who is provisionally registered under this section of any conditions, limitations or restrictions imposed by the Board on the provisional registration of the person.