Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated ActsSchedule 4 Savings and transitional provisions
section 55
1. Interpretation
In this Schedule, the "repealed Acts" means the Acts specified in Schedule 3.
2. Existing registrations
(1) Subject to subclause (2), a person whose registration as a veterinary surgeon under the repealed Acts is in force immediately before the commencement of this Act shall be deemed on that commencement to be registered as a veterinarian under section 13.
(2) Subclause (1) shall cease to apply to a person at the expiry of the year 1994 unless before that time he or she has duly applied in accordance with subclause (3) for registration under section 11.
(3) A person's application for registration for the purposes of this clause shall be:
(a) if the person is registered to practise veterinary surgery or medicine in a State or other Territory of the Commonwealth in which he or she is, in the Board's opinion, permanently resident – an application for registration by virtue of section 13(1)(b); or
(b) in any other case – an application for registration by virtue of section 13(1)(a) and the qualification referred to in paragraph (a) is not relevant.
(4) The Registrar shall retain the Register of Veterinary Surgeons of the Northern Territory kept under the repealed Acts and shall note it appropriately where a person entered in it ceases to be deemed to be registered as a veterinarian by virtue of this clause, and the Register shall, so long as and to the extent that it contains the name of a person who shall be deemed to be registered by virtue of this clause, be treated for all purposes as part of the Register under this Act.
3. Existing certificates
So long as a person shall be deemed by virtue of clause 1 to be registered as a veterinarian under this Act, the provisions of this Act (other than section 21(1)) relating to certificates of registration shall apply in relation to the certificate of registration issued to the person under the repealed Acts as they apply in relation to a certificate issued under section 21(1).
4. Service of notices, &c.
A notice or other document required or authorised by this Act to be served on or given to a person who shall be deemed under clause 1 to be registered as a veterinarian under this Act may be served or given by sending it by prepaid post to his or her professional address, if any, recorded in the Register or, if no such address is recorded, to his or her last known place of residence.