Veterinary Surgeons Act 1966

Entitlement to provide occasional services after first year: renewals U.K.

[F1 6. (1)  Sub-paragraph (2) applies where the registrar receives the required renewal documents from a visiting practitioner who is entitled under this Schedule to provide occasional services.

(2) The visiting practitioner is entitled to continue to provide occasional services, but paragraph 7 contains provision about the duration of entitlement continued under this sub-paragraph.

(3) Sub-paragraph (4) applies where the registrar receives the required renewal documents from a visiting practitioner—

(a) who is not entitled under this Schedule to provide occasional services;

(b) who has previously been entitled under this Schedule to provide occasional services; and

(c) whose registration in the visiting European list is not suspended.

(4) The visiting practitioner is once again entitled to provide occasional services but, in a case where the practitioner’s name is not in the visiting European list as a result of removal otherwise than under paragraph 3(6), only if the registrar decides, after having regard (in particular) to the fact of that removal and the reasons for it, that the entitlement should be renewed.

Paragraph 7 contains provision about the duration of entitlement continued under this sub-paragraph.

(5) In relation to a visiting practitioner “the required renewal documents” are—

(a) a renewal declaration; and

(b) each evidence of change document (if any).

(6) In this paragraph “renewal declaration”, in relation to a visiting practitioner, means a written declaration that—

(a) states the practitioner’s wish to provide occasional services in a further year; and

(b) contains details of the insurance cover, or other means of personal or collective protection, that the practitioner has with regard to professional liability.

(7) Where a document—

(a) is, in relation to a visiting practitioner, one of the other required documents for the purposes of paragraph 5(1); and

(b) substantiates a matter as respects which there has been a material change since the practitioner last (whether under paragraph 5 or this paragraph) supplied the then-current version of the document to the registrar,

the version of the document current when under this paragraph the practitioner supplies a renewal declaration to the registrar is an “evidence of change” document for the purposes of sub-paragraph (5)(b).

(8) A renewal declaration supplied under this paragraph may be supplied by any means.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 1B inserted (6.8.2008) by The Veterinary Surgeons Qualifications (European Recognition) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1824), reg. 1, Sch. para. 17 (with reg. 4)