New South Wales Repealed Acts New South Wales Repealed ActsThis legislation has been repealed.
(1) Without limiting the meaning of the expression "serious misconduct in a professional respect", a registered veterinary surgeon is taken to be guilty of serious misconduct in a professional respect if the veterinary surgeon:(a) provides information relating to the veterinary surgeon’s qualifications for registration knowing the information to be false or misleading in a material particular, or(b) contravenes Order 1998/1 made under section 46 of the Stock Medicines Act 1989 and published in Gazette No 108 on 17 July 1998 at pages 5496-5498 (or any Order amending or replacing that Order), or(c) engages in conduct in the veterinary surgeon’s professional capacity that, if repeated or continued, is likely to do any of the following:(i) cause unnecessary suffering to an animal,(ii) cause the inappropriate death of an animal,(iii) adversely affect the safety or health of any person,(iv) damage the international reputation of Australia in relation to animal exports, animal welfare, animal produce or sporting events, or(d) breaches any provision, prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph, of the veterinary surgeons’ code of professional conduct established under section 23.Note: Examples of the type of conduct referred to in paragraph (c) (iv) are the prescription or dispensing of inappropriate drugs (such as those that leave a residue in meat intended for consumption) and the prescription or dispensing of drugs in circumstances that allow the drugs to be used by human contestants in sporting events.
(2) Without limiting subsection (1), a registered veterinary surgeon is taken to be guilty of serious misconduct in a professional respect if it is demonstrated that, in his or her application for registration, the veterinary surgeon provided information relating to his or her qualifications for registration knowing the information to be false or misleading in a material particular.