The Veterinary Surgeons and Veterinary Practitioners (Registration) Regulations Order of Council 1999

PART V RETENTION OF A NAME AND REMOVAL FOR NON-PAYMENT OF FEES

7.  Not later than 14th March in each year the registrar shall send to the registrable address of every veterinary surgeon and veterinary practitioner whose registration will expire on 31st March in the same year, and who has not at that date paid the retention fee, the appropriate form of application for the retention of a name in the register with a notice of the fees payable and a warning that failure to pay such fees entails removal from the register or supplementary veterinary register, as the case may be, of that person’s name. The failure by a veterinary surgeon or veterinary practitioner to receive a form or notice shall not constitute a ground for retention or restoration of a name.

8.  Where the registrar has not received by 1st June of any year, from a veterinary surgeon or veterinary practitioner resident in the United Kingdom, a retention fee due on the immediately preceding 31st March, he shall send a warning that failure to pay the fee will result in the removal from the register or supplementary veterinary register of the name in relation to which the fee is due and, if the fee is not received within one month of the issue of the warning, he shall remove the name from the register or the supplementary veterinary register. Where, in the case of a veterinary surgeon or veterinary practitioner resident outside the United Kingdom, the fee has not been paid within three months after the issue of the warning letter, the Council shall decide what further action, if any, shall be taken before that name shall be removed.