New South Wales Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

VETERINARY SURGEONS ACT 1986 - SECT 3

3 Definitions

(1) In this Act, except in so far as the context or subject-matter otherwise indicates or requires:
"Board" means the Board of Veterinary Surgeons of New South Wales constituted under section 4.
"Investigating Committee" means the Veterinary Surgeons Investigating Committee constituted under section 24.
"practise", in relation to veterinary science, means do or perform, or attempt to do or perform, any act, matter or thing which forms part of veterinary science.
"register of specialists" means the register of specialists kept under section 9.
"register of veterinary surgeons" means the register of veterinary surgeons kept under section 8.
"registered" means registered under this Act.
"registered veterinary surgeon" means a person who is for the time being:

(a) registered as a veterinary surgeon under section 12 (full registration), including a person provisionally so registered,

(b) registered as an honorary veterinary surgeon under section 13, or

(c) registered as a veterinary surgeon under section 14 (limited registration).

"Registrar" means Registrar of the Board.
"regulation" means a regulation made under this Act.
"Tribunal" means the Administrative Decisions Tribunal established by the Administrative Decisions Tribunal Act 1997 .
"veterinary hospital" means a place used or intended to be used for the purpose of the practice of veterinary science, but does not include:

(a) a place at which any act, matter or thing permitted by section 37 (4) or 44 is done or performed if no other act, matter or thing the doing or performance of which forms part of the practice of veterinary science is done or performed at the place,

(b) a place at which an artificial breeding procedure, within the meaning of the Stock (Artificial Breeding) Act 1985 , is carried out if:

(i) the use of the place for the carrying out of that procedure is authorised by a licence in force under that Act, and

(ii) no other act, matter or thing the doing or performance of which forms part of the practice of veterinary science is done or performed at the place, or

(c) a place or class of places exempted from this definition by the regulations.

"veterinary science" includes any branch of the science or art of veterinary medicine or of veterinary surgery and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, includes:

(a) the examination of or attendance on any animal for the purpose of diagnosing the physiological or pathological condition of the animal,

(b) the giving of any anaesthetic to, the performance of any operation on, or the making of any radiological diagnosis of, any animal,

(c) without limiting the generality of paragraph (a), the diagnosing of pregnancy in an animal,

(d) without limiting the generality of paragraph (b):

(i) the carrying out of any artificial breeding procedure involving surgery, and

(ii) the de-antlering of deer, and

(e) the doing or performing of any act, matter or thing that is prescribed as forming part of the practice of veterinary science.

(2) In this Act:

(a) a reference to a function includes a reference to a power, authority and duty, and

(b) a reference to the exercise of a function includes, where the function is a duty, a reference to the performance of the duty.