New South Wales Consolidated Acts

VETERINARY PRACTICE ACT 2003 - SECT 69

69 Application to licensing of Licensing and Registration (Uniform Procedures) Act 2002

(1) The Board may grant a veterinary hospital licence.

(2) Part 2 of the Licensing and Registration (Uniform Procedures) Act 2002 ( "the applied Act") applies to and in respect of licensing under this Act, subject to the modifications and limitations prescribed by or under this Act.

Note: See clause 19 of Schedule 4, which temporarily suspends the provisions of the applied Act in relation to the making of applications by way of electronic communication.

(3) For the purposes of applying Part 2 of the applied Act to the granting of a veterinary hospital licence:

(a) an application for a licence must be accompanied by the approved fee for the application, and

(b) a licence may be amended under that Act, and

(c) the reference to 28 days in section 17 (1) of that Act (as to the period within which applications are to be dealt with) is to be read as a reference to 40 days, and

(d) the reference to 14 days in section 19 (1) of that Act (as to the period within which notice of the Board’s decision on an application is to be notified) is to be read as a reference to 7 days.

(4) A veterinary hospital licence is a continuing licence for the purposes of Part 2 of the applied Act.

(5) Subject to this section, the regulations may make provision for or with respect to such matters concerning licensing under this Act as are relevant to the operation of Part 2 of the applied Act.