Veterinary Practice Act 1997.

This Act, consisting of 97 sections divided into eleven Parts, establishes Veterinary Practice Act. The main purposes of this Act are: to protect the public by providing for the registration of veterinary practitioners and investigations into the professional conduct and fitness to practise of registered veterinary practitioners; and to establish the Veterinary Practitioners Registration Board of Victoria and the Veterinary Practitioners Registration Board Fund; and to make consequential amendments to other Acts; etc. It specifies that only specific persons may apply for registration as a veterinary practitioner, such as: natural persons whose principal place of residence is in Victoria; natural persons whose principal place of residence will be in Victoria while practising as a veterinary practitioner; natural persons in the case of an application for specific registration under section 7. A veterinary practitioner: a) who is a registered veterinary practitioner by the operation of section 3A; and b) whose principal place of residence will be in Victoria after the expiry of the practitioner's current annual registration period for the practitioner's interstate right to practise; and c) who intends to carry on veterinary practice after expiry of that registration period— must apply for registration in Victoria before the expiry of that registration period.