Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) If it comes to the notice of the board, whether by reason of an investigation conducted by it or otherwise, that a veterinary surgeon may be medically unfit to practise veterinary science it may appoint a committee consisting of medical practitioners (the committee) to decide whether or not the veterinary surgeon is medically fit to practise veterinary science.
(2) The board may, by written notice given to the veterinary surgeon, require the veterinary surgeon to appear before the committee and on being so required the veterinary surgeon shall report to the committee at a time and place specified in the notice and shall submit himself or herself to examination by the committee and to such tests and other examinations as the committee may require.
(3) Upon completing its examination of the veterinary surgeon and considering the results of the tests and other examinations the committee shall report to the board on the veterinary surgeon's medical fitness to practise veterinary science.
(4) Where the veterinary surgeon fails to report to the committee or fails to submit himself or herself when and as required pursuant to subsection (2), the committee shall report the veterinary surgeon's failure to the board.
(5) Where the committee's report states that the veterinary surgeon is medically unfit to practise veterinary science or failed to report to it or failed to submit himself or herself to a test or examination when and as required pursuant to subsection (2), the board may by notice in writing given to the veterinary surgeon call upon the veterinary surgeon to show cause before the tribunal at a time and place specified in the notice as to why the veterinary surgeon's name should not be removed from the register of veterinary surgeons.
(6) If at the time and place specified in the notice given under subsection (5) or at the time and place to which the proceedings to show cause are adjourned, the veterinary surgeon to whom the notice was given fails to appear or, having appeared, fails to show to the satisfaction of the tribunal that the veterinary surgeon is medically fit to practise veterinary science, the tribunal may order that the veterinary surgeon's name be removed from the register of veterinary surgeons.