31. Rules Relating to the Practice of Veterinary and Veterinary Para-Profession, No. 93 of 2016

The Rules provide for services pertaining specifically to veterinary professions to include; (a) all material or intellectual interventions that have as their objective the diagnosis, treatment or prevention of any mental or physical disease, injury, pain or defect in an animal or any physiological or pathological function or condition in an animal, whatever the cause of disease, injury, pain, defect, function or condition; (b) all advice direct, telephonic or by any other means or intellectual transfer of veterinary knowledge; (c) a surgical or dental operation or any other invasive intervention on an animal including all interventions that have the potential to cause pain to an animal; (d) all veterinary interventions, including food or feed chain activities affecting public health; (e) the administration of an anaesthetic agent to an animal; and (f) the prescribing or administration of a medicine to an animal and certifying the health status of an animal or group of animals or any veterinary certification the conduct of persons. The Rules further provide extensively for the conduct of persons engaging in professional veterinary practice. Other things like the conduct of veterinary appointments, handling of animals, etc, are also provided for in the rules. The Rules provide for the standards for consulting rooms, animal clinics, animal hospitals, other veterinary facilities and the facilities to be contained therein.