New South Wales Consolidated Acts

VETERINARY PRACTICE ACT 2003 - SECT 13

13 Offence to practise as specialist unless registered as specialist

(1) An individual must not represent himself or herself to be a specialist in a branch of veterinary science unless he or she is the holder of specialist registration in that branch.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months, or both.

(2) Without limiting the ways in which a person can be considered to be represented as a specialist, a representation using any of the following titles, names or descriptions constitutes such a representation:

(a) the title or description “specialist” or any abbreviation or derivative of that word in connection with the person’s practice of veterinary science,

(b) any title, description, words or letters implying, or capable of being understood as implying, that the person is a specialist in a branch of veterinary science.