Veterinary Practice Regulations 2022

For the purposes of section 79(c) of the Act, the following are professional misconduct —

assaulting, resisting, obstructing, hindering, threatening or insulting the Board or a person referred to in section 160(1) of the Act, when the Board or the person is carrying out a function under the Act;

signing or giving a certificate, notice, report or other similar document, in connection with the practice of veterinary medicine, that the practitioner knows is false or misleading in a material particular;

publishing an advertisement in connection with the practice of veterinary medicine that the practitioner knows is false or misleading in a material particular;

conduct set out in subregulation (3);

failing to comply with a requirement under regulation 25K.

Despite subregulation (1)(b), giving a document that the practitioner knows is false or misleading is not professional misconduct if —

the document is given in compliance with a direction under section 94(1)(a)(ii) or 115(2)(a) of the Act and the practitioner indicates —

that the document is false or misleading; and

to the extent the practitioner can, how the document is false or misleading;

the document is given under section 196 of the Act.

For the purposes of subregulation (1)(d), a practitioner engages in professional misconduct if the practitioner —

fails to prevent the publication of an advertisement in connection with a veterinary practice business that the practitioner knows is false or misleading in a material particular; and

is either —

if the veterinary practice business has a practice owner who is a practitioner — the practice owner; or

otherwise — the veterinary supervisor for the veterinary premises at or from which the veterinary practice business is carried on.