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Annual fees.
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28.—(1) A fee (in this Act referred to as the annual fee) shall be payable annually to the Council by every person whose name is registered in the register in respect of every year (save as is hereinafter otherwise provided) during which or during any part of which his name is so registered and such fee shall, in the case of persons whose names appear in the register at the beginning of any such year, be paid on or before the 30th day of June in that year.
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(2) Every person registered in the register at the establishment thereof shall within one month after the receipt by him of notice in writing of such registration, pay to the Council an annual fee in respect of the year current at the date of such establishment, and if any person so registered fails to pay such annual fee within such month the Council shall erase the name of such person from the register and may delegate to the registrar the duty of making such erasure.
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(3) No person who is first registered in the register after the establishment thereof shall be liable to pay an annual fee in respect of the year in which he is so first registered.
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(4) The annual fee shall be of such amount as the Executive Council shall from time to time appoint by order and different amounts may be so appointed in respect of different classes of persons, and, until the Executive Council so appoints the amount of such fee, the amount thereof shall be two guineas.
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(5) At every statutory meeting of the Council, the Council shall cause to be erased from the register the name of every person who has not paid, on or before the next preceding 30th day of June, the annual fee payable by him in respect of the year then current, but the Council at their discretion may at such meeting and for cause shown allow the name of any such person to remain in the register until the next following 31st day of December on condition that if such person does not pay the said annual fee before the said 31st day of December the Council shall on that day erase his name from the register and the Council may delegate to the registrar the duty of making such erasure.
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This sub-section shall not apply in respect of the non-payment by a person registered in the register at the establishment thereof of the annual fee in respect of the year current at such establishment.
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(6) Where a person who is registered in the register at the establishment thereof and has paid to the Council within the time limited by this section the annual fee in respect of the year current at the date of such establishment, satisfies the Council either that he has paid to the Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons an annual fee in respect of the said year or that he has, in the said year, paid a registration fee to the Council of the said College, the Council shall refund to such person the amount of the annual fee or registration fee (as the case may be) so paid by him to the Council of the said College.
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(7) The name of a person whose name has been erased from the register under this section may be restored to the register at any time thereafter by special direction of the Council and the Council may require as a condition precedent to such restoration the payment by such person of a fee not exceeding the total of the registration fee which would be payable by such person if he were then being registered for the first time and the annual fee on account of the non-payment of which his name was so erased.
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(8) In this section the word “year” means a period of twelve months commencing on any 1st day of April and ending on the next following 31st day of March.
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