New South Wales Consolidated Acts

VETERINARY PRACTICE ACT 2003 - SECT 33

33 Annual return to be submitted

(1) A veterinary practitioner must, on or before the return date in each year, furnish in writing to the Board in a form approved by the Board a return for the return period specifying the following information:

(a) if the veterinary practitioner has been found guilty of any of the following offences:

(i) an offence under this Act, the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1979 , the Stock Medicines Act 1989 , the Stock Diseases Act 1923 , the Exotic Diseases of Animals Act 1991 , the Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 1966 , or the Export Control Act 1982 of the Commonwealth, or any of the regulations under those Acts,

(ii) any other offence under a law of this State or of the Commonwealth, or another State or Territory, that imposes a requirement on a veterinary practitioner in his or her capacity as a veterinary practitioner,

(iii) any offence under a law of the Commonwealth, or another State or Territory, or of a jurisdiction outside Australia, that in the opinion of the Board is equivalent to an offence referred to in subparagraph (i) or (ii),

(b) details of any significant injury or illness (physical or mental) from which the veterinary practitioner suffered at any time during the return period and that may reasonably be thought likely to detrimentally affect the veterinary practitioner’s physical or mental capacity to practise veterinary science,

(c) details of any suspension or cancellation of, or imposition of conditions on, the licence, registration or other authorisation of the veterinary practitioner in relation to the practice of veterinary science in another jurisdiction (either within Australia or elsewhere) during the return period,

(d) a statement as to whether the veterinary practitioner has been refused a licence, registration or other authorisation in relation to the practice of veterinary science in another jurisdiction (either within Australia or elsewhere) during the return period,

(e) the premises (if any) at which the veterinary practitioner has been practising during the return period and the premises (if any) at which the veterinary practitioner intends to practise in the next 12 months,

(f) such other information as may be prescribed by the regulations.

(2) The Board may require a return under this section to be verified by statutory declaration.

(3) Despite subsection (1), the regulations may provide that a veterinary practitioner with honorary registration need not submit an annual return or need include in the annual return only such information as the regulations may specify.

(4) The Board may cause a veterinary practitioner’s name to be removed from the Register if the veterinary practitioner has failed to furnish an annual return in accordance with this section.

(5) A person whose name has been removed from the Register for failure to furnish an annual return is entitled to re-registration if the person furnishes the return to the Board together with any approved fee for restoration to the Register under this section.

(6) The entitlement to re-registration is an entitlement to registration on the same terms and subject to the same conditions (if any) as applied to the person’s registration immediately before the removal of the person’s name from the Register.

(7) A person registered pursuant to an entitlement to re-registration under this section is taken to have been so registered on and from the day the person’s name was removed from the Register or on and from such later day as the Board determines and notifies to the person. However, nothing in this subsection affects any proceedings for an offence instituted against the person before the person was entitled to be re-registered.

(8) Nothing in this section requires the Board to re-register a person if the Board is satisfied that the person would not be entitled to be registered as a veterinary practitioner but for this section.

(9) An entitlement to re-registration under this section does not override any other provision of this Act pursuant to which a person’s name is authorised or required to be removed from the Register.

(10) In this section:
"return date" means the date in a particular year notified to a veterinary practitioner by the Board in writing at least 1 month in advance.
"return period" means the period of 12 months ending 2 months before the return date in a year.