Western Australian Consolidated Acts

VETERINARY SURGEONS ACT 1960 - SECT 20B

20B .         Provisional registration

        (1)         Where a person, pursuant to section 20(1) or (2), applies to the Board to be registered as a veterinary surgeon the chairman, or in the absence of the chairman a member of the Board authorised generally in that behalf by the Board, upon being satisfied that the applicant appears to be entitled to be registered as a veterinary surgeon, may grant to him a certificate of provisional registration as a veterinary surgeon.

        (2)         A person to whom a certificate of provisional registration as a veterinary surgeon is granted is deemed to be registered under this Act as a veterinary surgeon and this Act, subject to subsection (3), applies to and with respect to that person accordingly — 

                  (i)         until the date stated in the certificate; or

                  (ii)         until such later date as may be fixed by the Board,

                but the date so stated or fixed shall not in any case be a date later than 3 months from the date on which the certificate was granted.

        (3)         The Board may, at any time before the date so stated or fixed, cancel a certificate of provisional registration and thereupon the person to whom the certificate was granted shall cease to be deemed to be registered as a veterinary surgeon under this Act, and the cancellation shall, for the purpose 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.

        (4)         If a person to whom a certificate of provisional registration is granted becomes registered as a veterinary surgeon while that certificate is still in force his registration shall, unless otherwise determined by the Board, be deemed to have effect from the date of the grant of the provisional certificate.

        [Section 20B inserted by No. 45 of 1977 s. 14; amended by No. 8 of 1984 s. 13.]