Veterinary Surgeons Act 1881
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1881 c. 62 |
| Year | 1881 |
Veterinary Surgeons Act, 1881
(44 & 45 Vict.) CHAPTER 62.
An Act to amend the Law relating to Veterinary Surgeons.
[27th August 1881]
Whereas it is expedient that provision be made to enable persons requiring the aid of a veterinary surgeon for the cure or prevention of diseases in or injuries to horses and other animals, to distinguish between qualified and unqualified practitioners:
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Short title
1. This Act may be cited as theVeterinary Surgeons Act, 1881.
2 Interpretation.
2. In this Act—
‘The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons’ means the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons incorporated and regulated by a charter and two supplemental charters granted by Her Majesty in the years one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six and one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine respectively.
‘The Registrar’ means the Registrar for the time being of the said Royal College.
‘Veterinary surgery’ means the art and science of veterinary surgery and medicine.
3 Provisions as to register of veterinary surgeons.
(1)3.—(1.) The register of members of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons directed by Her Majesty's said Royal Charter of 1876 to be made and maintained, shall be styled the Register of Veterinary Surgeons, and shall be kept as accurately as possible by the Registrar.
(2) (2.) The Council of that College shall cause correct copies of the said register to be from time to time and at least once a year printed under their direction and published and sold, and such copies shall be admissible in evidence.
4 Provision for examination of students in Scotland.
4. The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons shall be bound to make provision in the manner permitted by their charters for the examination in England of the students attending the Royal Veterinary College, and in Scotland of the students attending the several Scotch Veterinary Colleges, and in Ireland whenever a Veterinary College shall be established in that country, and to admit and register such students as have passed the examination as members of the said Royal College under the provisions of such charters and this Act.
5 Correction of register.
(1)5.—(1.) The Registrar shall from time to time insert in the register of veterinary surgeons any alteration which may come to his knowledge in the name or address of any person registered.
(2) (2.) The Registrar shall remove from the said register the name of every deceased person.
(3) (3.) The Registrar may remove from the said register the name of a person who has ceased to practise, but not (save as herein-after provided) without the consent of that person.
(4) (4.) Where the Registrar has reason to think that any person registered has ceased to practise, the Registrar may send by post to such person a notice inquiring whether or not he has ceased to practise or has changed his residence; and if the Registrar does not within three months after sending the notice receive any answer thereto from such person, the Registrar may within fourteen days after the expiration of the three months send him by post in a registered letter another notice referring to the first notice and stating that no answer thereto has been received, and if the Registrar does not within one month after sending the second notice receive any answer thereto, such person shall for the purpose of the present section be deemed to have ceased to practise and his name may be removed accordingly.
(5) (5.) In the execution of his duties the Registrar shall act on such evidence as in each case appears sufficient.
6 Removal of name from register.
6. The power conferred by the said Supplemental Charter of 1876 on the Council of the said Royal College, at a meeting of the Council, at which not less than two thirds of the members are present, and with the consent of three fourths of the members so present, but not otherwise, to remove a name from the register of Veterinary Surgeons may be exercised in respect of any person who is at the passing of this Act on that register, or who is after the passing of this Act placed thereon under the said charters or this Act, but in the following cases only (that is to say), at the request or with the consent of, the person whose name is to be removed, or where a name has been incorrectly entered, or has been fraudulently entered or procured to be entered, or where a person registered has, either before or after the passing of this Act, and either before or after his registration, been convicted, either in Her Majesty's dominions or elsewhere, of an offence which, if committed in England, would be a misdemeanor or higher offence, or where a person registered is shown to have been guilty, either before or after the passing of this Act, and either before or after his registration, and either in Her Majesty's dominions or elsewhere, of any conduct disgraceful to him in a professional respect.
7 Restoration of name to register.
(1)7.—(1.) Where the Council of the said Royal College have removed the name of any person from the register of veterinary surgeons, the name of that person shall not be again entered in the register except by a resolution of the Council passed under this section, or by order of a court of competent jurisdiction.
(2) (2.) The Council may by resolution passed by a like proportion of their number as is for the time being required for the removal of a name from the said register, direct the Registrar to restore to the register any name removed therefrom, either without fee or on payment of such fee not exceeding the registration fee as the Council from time to time fix, and the Registrar shall restore the same accordingly.
(3) (3.) The name of any person removed from the said register at the request of such person or with his consent shall, unless it might if not so removed have been removed by order of the Council, be restored to the register, on his application and on payment of such fee not exceeding the registration fee as the Council from time to time fix.
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