Veterinary Surgeons Act (1881) Ammendent Act 1920
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1920 c. 20 |
| Year | 1920 |
Veterinary Surgeons Act (1881) Ammendent Act, 1920
(10 & 11 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 20.
An Act to amend the Acts relating to the Practice of Veterinary Surgery and Medicine.
[4th August 1920]
Whereas it is desirable to provide further funds for the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons to enable it to conduct examinations, prosecutions, and inquiries, authorised by statute, and generally to carry out such other objects or duties as may be considered beneficial to the veterinary profession and necessary for the promotion of the art and science of veterinary medicine and surgery:
And whereas doubts have arisen whether persons registered as existing practitioners under section fifteen of the Veterinary Surgeons Act, 1881, are subject to the jurisdiction of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons as conferred on them by that Act in respect of persons on the Register of Veterinary Surgeons:
And whereas it is desirable that persons registered as existing practitioners shall be entitled to style themselves veterinary surgeons:
And whereas the profession of veterinary surgeons is not protected from unqualified persons practising as such under the cover of registration under the Joint Stock Companies Acts:
Be it therefore enacted by the King'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 and construction.
1. This Act shall be supplemental to and read with the Veterinary Surgeons Act, 1881 (herein-after called the principal Act), and the Veterinary Surgeons Amendment Act, 1900, and may be citied as theVeterinary Surgeons Act (1881) Ammendent Act, 1920, and shall come into operation on the first day of October one thousand nine hundred and twenty.
2 Fees and exemptions, with regulations relating thereto.
(1) An annual fee of one guinea shall be payable on the first day of April in each year, or on such other date as the council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons may from time to time determine, by every member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, save as excepted in subsection (4) hereof, such fee to be paid to the registrar of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons on or before the thirtieth day of April, or such other day as the said council may from time to time determine, in each year. On...
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