Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) The Board may direct a person's registration as a veterinarian to be limited as to one or more of the following:
(a) the period, not exceeding 2 years, for which it is to continue in force;
(b) the veterinary services that it authorises the person to provide;
(c) the purposes for which, or the circumstances in which, it authorises the person to provide veterinary services.
(2) An application for limited registration may be made to the Board by a person who is not entitled to registration as a veterinarian under section 13 because he or she:
(a) is not qualified within the meaning of section 13(1)(a) or is not registered for the purpose of practising veterinary surgery or medicine in a State or other Territory of the Commonwealth; or
(b) is so registered but is subject to a limitation under subsection (1).
(3) An application for limited registration shall be made in accordance with an approved form accompanied by the prescribed application fee.
(4) Where an application for limited registration is made by a person to whom subsection (2)(a) refers, the Board:
(a) may, by notice in writing served on the applicant, require the applicant:
(i) to supply to the Board, within a period specified, further information about matters specified in the notice; or
(ii) to attend the Board in person at a time and place specified in the notice; or
(b) shall, as it thinks fit:
(i) direct that the applicant be registered as a veterinarian, subject to one or more limitations under subsection (1); or
(ii) refuse to make such a direction.
(5) Where the Board refuses to make a direction under subsection (4)(b)(i), it shall, without delay, notify the applicant in writing of the refusal and the reasons for the refusal.
(6) Where an application for limited registration is made by a person referred to in subsection (2)(b), the Board shall direct the applicant's registration as a veterinarian subject to a limitation corresponding to the limitation to which the applicant's registration elsewhere in the Commonwealth is subject.