Veterinary Surgeons Act, 1931
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Erasure from the register on account of professional misconduct. |
36.—(1) Whenever the Council as the result of an inquiry held by it under this Act into the conduct of a person alleged to have been guilty of conduct disgraceful to him in a professional respect or as the result of the report of a committee (other than a committee appointed under the Agreement) appointed by the Council under this Act to hold an enquiry into the conduct of any such person, finds that such person was guilty of conduct disgraceful to him in a professional respect the Council may, by a resolution in favour of which not less than five members of the Council shall have voted, erase the name of such person from the register. | |
(2) Whenever as the result of the report of a committee appointed under the Agreement to investigate an allegation in relation to a person who is registered in the register and is also registered in the general veterinary register, the Council finds that such person has been guilty of conduct disgraceful to him in a professional respect the Council may, by a resolution in favour of which not less than five members of the Council shall have voted, erase the name of such person from the register. | ||
(3) Whenever the Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons has, in pursuance of the Agreement set forth in the First Schedule to this Act, reported to the Council a case in which the Council of the said College has determined to remove from the general veterinary register the name of a person who is registered in that register and is also registered in the register and in relation to whom the Council of the said College has in accordance with the said Agreement investigated an allegation of conduct disgraceful in a professional respect, the Council shall consider the facts stated in such report and, if the Council on such consideration finds that the person to whom such report relates has been guilty of conduct disgraceful to him in a professional respect, the Council may, by a resolution in favour of which not less than five members of the Council shall have voted, erase the name of such person from the register. | ||
(4) References in this Act to the erasure by the Council of the name of a person from the register on account of professional misconduct shall be construed as referring only to an erasure of the name of a person from the register made by the Council under this section. |