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VETERINARY SURGEONS ACT 1960 - SECT 26E

26E .         Veterinary nurses

        (1)         A person shall be approved by the Board to carry out the duties of a veterinary nurse if that person is a person of good fame and character and proves to the Board, if so required after personal attendance before the Board or a Committee of the Board, that he or she has completed to the satisfaction of the Board an approved course of study and veterinary practice and training.

        (2)         The approval of the Board shall be evidenced by a certificate, which shall be endorsed with particulars of any condition or limitation to which that approval is subject, issued to the applicant by the Registrar.

        (3)         The Registrar shall record all certificates of approval issued under this section, and particulars of every endorsement thereon.

        (4)         The duties and veterinary services that may be performed by a veterinary nurse may be prescribed.

        (5)         Where an application by any person to be approved by the Board to carry out the duties of a veterinary nurse is refused by the Board, upon any ground other than the ground that the person has not completed to the satisfaction of the Board an approved course of study and veterinary practice and training, that person may apply to the State Administrative Tribunal for a review of the decision.

        [Section 26E inserted by No. 45 of 1977 s. 28; amended by No. 8 of 1984 s. 22; No. 55 of 2004 s. 1285.]



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