Veterinary Practice Act 1997
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88 Regulations
(1) The Governor in Council may make regulations for or with respect to—
(a) registration, renewal of registration, endorsement of registration and applications for registration, renewal of registration and endorsement of registration;
(b) the register, including particulars to be noted on the register and the manner of keeping the register;
(c) forms for the purposes of this Act;
(d) time limits for the purposes of this Act;
S. 88(1)(da) inserted by No. 40/2019 s. 95.
(da) prescribing, for the purposes of section 86A, infringement offences and infringement penalties for infringement offences;
(e) penalties, not exceeding 10 penalty units, for breaches of the regulations;
(f) generally any matter or thing required or permitted to be prescribed or necessary to be prescribed to give effect to this Act.
(2) The regulations—
(a) may be of general or limited application; and
(b) may differ according to differences in time, place or circumstance; and
(c) may apply, adopt or incorporate any matter contained in any document, code, standard, rule, specification, or method, formulated, issued, prescribed or published by any person whether—
(i) wholly or partially or as amended by the regulations; or
(ii) as formulated, issued, prescribed or published at the time the regulations are made or at any time before then; or
(iii) as formulated, issued, prescribed or published from time to time; and
(d) may leave anything for the approval or satisfaction of a specified person.
Part 10—Savings, transitional and amendments
Division 1—Savings and transitional
89 Definitions
In this Part—
new Board means the Veterinary Practitioners Registration Board of Victoria established under this Act;
old Act means the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1958 as in force immediately before its repeal;
old Board means the Veterinary Board of Victoria established under the old Act.