Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) Where a person has applied to the board in the approved form to be registered as a veterinary surgeon and has paid the prescribed fee for registration, the chairperson or in the absence of the chairperson a member of the board authorised generally in that behalf by the board, upon being satisfied that such person is entitled to be registered as a veterinary surgeon, may ask the registrar to grant to the person a certificate in the approved form of provisional registration as a veterinary surgeon.
(2) The registrar must comply with a request under subsection (1).
(3) A person to whom a certificate of provisional registration as a veterinary surgeon has been granted shall be deemed to be registered under this Act as a veterinary surgeon and this Act shall apply to and with respect to that person accordingly--
(a) until the date stated in the certificate; or
(b) until such later date as is fixed by the board.
(4) The date stated or the later date fixed by the board under subsection (3) must not in any case be more than 3 months from the date on which the certificate was granted.
(5) Despite subsections (1) to (3), the board may at any time before the date stated or fixed, as the case may be, cancel a certificate granted and thereupon the person to whom it was granted shall cease to be deemed to be registered as a veterinary surgeon under this Act, and the cancellation shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be a refusal by the board of the application of that person to be registered as a veterinary surgeon.
(6) If a person to whom a certificate of provisional registration has been granted becomes registered as a veterinary surgeon while that certificate is still in force, the person's registration shall, unless otherwise decided by the board, date from the granting of that certificate.