View All - 1956 Acts Section No : Acts & Ordinances VETERINARY SURGEONS AND PRACTITIONERSMarginal Notes1. This Act may be cited as the Veterinary Surgeons and Practitioners Act, No. 46 of 1956.2. Qualifications for registration.3. Applications for registration.4. Registration fee. 5. Period of validity of registration. 6. Renewal of registration. 7. Renewal fee. 8. Consequence of failure to pay renewal fee. 9. Register. 10. Appointment of registering officer. 11. Publication of copy of registrations made by registering officer. 12. Appeal to Minister against omission of name from the register. 13. Minister's power to order amendment or cancellation of a registration. 14. Registering officer to carry out Minister's order under section 12 or section 13. 15. Constitution of the Veterinary Council of Ceylon. 16. President of the Council. 17. Term of office of members of the Council. 18. Meetings of the Council. 19. The Council to be a body corporate. 20. Appointment of officers and servants. 21. Funds of the Council. 22. Transfer of the register to the Council. 23. Registrar to be subject to directions of the Council in maintaining the register. 24. Power of the Council to order amendment or cancellation of a registration. 25. Power of the Council to order a name in the register to be expunged. 26. Restoration of expunged name to the register. 27. Publication of annual list of registered veterinary surgeons and registered veterinary practitioners. 28. Change of residence by registered veterinary surgeon or registered veterinary practitioner. 29. Insertion of additional qualifications. 30. Certificates by veterinary-surgeons and veterinary practitioners. 31. Right to recover fees or charges for services as a veterinary surgeon or veterinary practitioner. 32. Restriction of practice of veterinary surgery by unqualified persons. 33. Assumption of title of veterinary surgeon or veterinary practitioner. 34. Degrees, diplomas, &c., of veterinary surgeons. 35. Notification of registration, &c. 36. Construction of " veterinary surgeon" and " veterinary practitioner " in written law. 37. Offences and penalties. 38. Protection of officers for action taken under this Act. 39. Power of Minister to amend Schedule. 40. Regulations. 41. Interpretation.