New South Wales Consolidated Acts

VETERINARY PRACTICE ACT 2003 - SECT 64

64 Meaning of “major surgery”

(1) In this Act, "major surgery" means a restricted act of veterinary science that includes the carrying out of a procedure that:

(a) according to current standards of veterinary practice, should not be undertaken without the administration of an anaesthetic (other than a local anaesthetic) to an animal, or

(b) involves a spinal anaesthetic.

(2) Despite subsection (1), "major surgery" includes any act of veterinary science prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this section to be major surgery but does not include any act of veterinary science prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this section not to be major surgery.