Veterinary Surgeons Act 1987

Where the Board makes a determination under section 46 in relation to a registered veterinary surgeon who is a member or officer of a veterinary services company or a partner in a veterinary services partnership, the Board may – order the company or partnership to pay a fine of such amount, not exceeding 50 penalty units, as it thinks proper or order it to pay such a fine and require it to give to the Board an undertaking under this section; or order that the company or partnership give to the Board an undertaking under this section.

An undertaking given to the Board under this section is an undertaking – to comply, during such period as the Board specifies, with such conditions as it may specify; and that a person concerned in the management of the relevant veterinary services company or a partner in the relevant veterinary services partnership will, at any time within that period, appear before the Board when required by it to do so.

A condition referred to in subsection (2) may, without limiting the generality of that subsection, be a condition that the Board considers necessary or desirable to impose, in the public interest, on the relevant veterinary services company or relevant veterinary services partnership.

Where the Board is satisfied that a veterinary services company or a partner in a veterinary services partnership has failed to comply with an undertaking given by it under this section, the Board may – exercise in relation to that company or partnership any of the powers under this section which it could have exercised if it had not required the company or partnership to enter into the undertaking; or require the terms of the undertaking to be varied.

Where the Board requires a veterinary services company or a veterinary services partnership to enter into an undertaking under this section, or requires the terms of such an undertaking to be varied, and, within such time as the Board may allow, that undertaking is not given or so varied, the Board may exercise, in relation to the company or partnership, any of the powers under this section it could have exercised if it had not required the undertaking to be entered into or varied.

Where the Board exercises any of its powers under this section in respect of a veterinary services company or veterinary services partnership, the Board may, by action in a court of competent jurisdiction, recover from the company or partnership, as a debt due to the Board, any legal and other costs and any out-of-pocket expenses incurred by it in the exercise of the power.