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The Gujarat Veterinary Practitioners Act, 1969
The Gujarat Veterinary Practitioners Act, 1969
Sections
1. Short title, extent and commencement.
Section 12. Definitions.
Section 23. Constitution and incorporation of Council.
Section 34. Term of office of members.
Section 45. Casual vacancies.
Section 56. Resignation.
Section 67. Disqualification, disability and removal from office.
Section 78. Meetings of Council.
Section 89. Proceedings and meetings of validity of acts.
Section 910. Fees and allowances to members.
Section 1011. Income and expenditure of the Council.
Section 1112. Powers, duties and functions of Council.
Section 1213. Registrar and other employees of Council.
Section 1314. Preparation of Register.
Section 1415. Persons not entitled to resignation.
Section 1516. Removal of names from register.
Section 1617. Maintenance of register.
Section 1718. Renewal fee.
Section 1819. Publication of periodical list of registered veterinary practitioners.
Section 1920. No refund fees.
Section 2021. Rights of registered veterinary practitioners.
Section 2122. Notice of death.
Section 2223. Unregistered persons not to hold certain appointments.
Section 2324. Prohibition of veterinary practice by persons not registered.
Section 2425. Registered practitioners competent to give valid certificates or expert evidence.
Section 2526. Prohibition against addition of any title, description, etc., to name of any person, unless authorised to do so.
Section 2627. Offences under Act to be cognizable.
Section 2728. Indemnity to persons acting under the Act.
Section 2829. Rules.
Section 2930. Regulations.
Section 3031. Budget estimates of Council and Re-appropriation of funds.
Section 3132. Copy of Budget estimate to be forwarded to State Government.
Section 3233. Accounts and their audit.
Section 3334. Control of State Government.
Section 3435. Amendment of Schedule.
Section 3536. Repeal and saving.
Section 3637. Vesting of rights, duties, etc.
Section 37
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"content": "(a) \"appointed day\" means the date on which this Act comes into force;\n(b) \"Council\" means the Gujarat Veterinary Council established and constituted under this Act;\n(c) \"Director\" means the Director of Animal Husbandry, Gujarat State and includes any officer authorised by the State Government to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of the Director of Animal Husbandry, Gujarat State;\n(d) \"hospital\" means an institution in the State where animals are treated by methods approved by the Council;\n(e) \"member\" means a member of the Council who is a recognised veterinary practitioner;\n(f) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules or regulations, as the case may be, made under this Act;\n(g) \"President\" means the President of the Council;\n(h) \"recognised qualification\" means any of the qualifications specified in the Schedule;\n(i) \"register\" means the register of veterinary practitioners prepared and maintained under Section 14.\n(j) \"registered veterinary practitioner\" means a veterinary practitioner who holds a recognised qualification or is otherwise entitled to have his name registered under this Act and whose name is for the time being entered in the register ;\n(k) \"Registrar\" means the Registrar appointed under Section 13;\n(l) \"regulations\" means the regulations made by the Council under Section 30;\n(m) \"rules\" means the rules made by the State Government under Section 29.\n(n) \"Schedule\" means the Schedule appended to this Act;\n(o) \"Veterinary College\" means a college referred to in the Schedule.\nChapter II\nConstitution, Functions and Powers of the Council",
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"content": "(a) the Director shall be an ex-officio member and the President;\n(b) one member, who shall be the Principal of a veterinary college, shall be nommated by the State Government;\n(c) one member, not being a Principal of a veterinary college, shall be elected, by members of all the faculties of veterinary science, by whatever name called, in the statutory universities in the State of Gujarat, dealing with veterinary education from amongst themselves;\n(d) three members shall be elected by the veterinary practitioners, residing in the State of Gujarat, who are registered under this Act, from amongst themselves.\n(i) in respect of the constitution of the Council for the first time under this Act, all the members thereof other than the ex-officio members shall be nominated by the State Government;\n(ii) the members so nominated shall hold office for such period not exceeding three years in the aggregate as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, from time to time, specify.",
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"content": "(a) who is an undischarged insolvent;\n(b) who has been adjudged to be of unsound mind by a competent Court;\n(c) whose name has been removed from the register; or\n(d) who is a full time officer or servant of the Council, shall be eligible to be elected or nominated or to continue as a member.\n(a) fails to accept office within one month of the date of his nomination or election; or\n(b) absents himself from three consecutive meetings of the Council, without such reasons as may in the opinion of the Council be sufficient; or\n(c) dies or has his resignation accepted during the term of his office; or\n(d) ceases to represent the faculties of veterinary science, if he is a member elected under clause (c) of sub-section (2) of Section 3; or\n(e) becomes, or is found to be subject to any of the disqualifications specified in sub-section (1), the State Government shall declare his office to be vacant.",
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"content": "(a) fees received from veterinary practitioners;\n(b) grants received from the State Government, if any; and\n(c) any other sums received by the Council.\n(a) salaries and allowance of the Registrar and the other staff maintained by the Council;\n(b) fees and allowances paid to the members of the Council;\n(c) such other expenses as are necessary for performing its duties and functions under this Act.",
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"content": "(a) to maintain the register and the periodical list and to provide for the registration of veterinary practitioners;\n(b) to hear and decide appeals from any decision of the Registrar;\n(c) to prescribe a code of ethics for regulating the professional conduct of registered veterinary practitioners;\n(d) to reprimand a registered veterinary practitioner, to suspend or remove him from the register or to take such other disciplinary action against him as may, in the opinion of the Council, be necessary or expedient;\n(e) to exercise such other powers and perform such other duties and functions, as are laid down in this Act, or may be prescribed by rules.",
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"content": "(a) the full name and residential address of the registered veterinary practitioner;\n(b) the date of his admission to the register maintained under this Act and in the case of a veterinary practitioner registered in any other State, the date of his admission of the register maintained under the law of that State and if he be a person who was on the day immediately preceding the appointed day, registered in a register kept under any of the laws referred to in subsection (4), the date of his admission to that register;\n(c) the qualifications specified in the Schedule possessed by him if any and the date on which he obtained each qualification and the authority which conferred or granted it; and\n(d) such further particulars as may be prescribed by rules.\n(b) Such certificate shall, subject to the renewal thereof under the provisions of this Act, be valid only up to the date specified therein.",
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"title": "15. Persons not entitled to resignation.",
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"content": "(i) the Bombay Veterinary Practitioners Act, 1953 (Bombay LXVIII of 1953) as in force in the Bombay area of the State; or\n(ii) any other law for the time being in force in India or any part thereof regulating the registration of veterinary practitioners,",
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"number": "16",
"title": "16. Removal of names from register.",
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"content": "(a) issue a letter of warning to such veterinary practitioner; or\n(b) direct the name of such veterinary practitioner either to be removed from the register for such period as may be specified in the direction, or to be removed from the register permanently.\n(i) a cognizable offence by a registered veterinary practitioner which involves moral turpitude, and for which he is convicted by a criminal court, or\n(ii) a cognizable offence by a registered veterinary practitioner subject to military law for which he is convicted under the Army Act, 1950 (XLVI of 1950), or\n(iii) any conduct which, in the opinion of the Council is infamous in relation to the veterinary profession, particularly under a code of ethics, if any, prescribed by the Council:\n(a) is in possession of a recognised qualification, and\n(b) is not a person whose name has been removed from the register under Clause (b) or to whom the provisions of Section 15 apply.\n(a) enforcing the attendance of any person, and examining him on oath;\n(b) compelling the production of documents; and\n(c) issuing of commissions for the examination of witnesses.",
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"number": "18",
"title": "18. Renewal fee.",
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"content": "(b) If the renewal fee be not paid by the due date, the Registrar shall remove the name of the defaulting veterinary practitioner from the register. On such removal, the certificate of registration issued to the practitioner shall be deemed to have been cancelled:",
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"title": "19. Publication of periodical list of registered veterinary practitioners.",
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"content": "(a) the names of all persons for the time being entered or re-entered in the register, and not included in any subsisting periodical list already printed and published; and\n(b) the names of all veterinary practitioners included in any subsisting periodical list, whose names have since been removed on account of any reason whatsoever from and not re-entered in the register, and\n(c) any other amendments to the subsisting periodical list.",
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"title": "20. No refund fees.",
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"number": "21",
"title": "21. Rights of registered veterinary practitioners.",
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"content": "(i) any expression importing a person recognised by law as a veterinary practitioner shall, in all Acts of the State Legislature in force in the State, and in all Central Acts (in their application to the State) in so far as such Acts relate to any matters specified in list II or III in the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India include a veterinary practitioner whose name is entered in the register under this Act;\n(ii) any certificate, or prescription required by or under any law from any veterinary practitioner shall be valid if such certificate or prescription has been signed by a registered veterinary practitioner;\n(iii) it shall be lawful for every registered veterinary practitioner, to use in full after his name the words \"Registered Veterinary Practitioner\";\n(iv) every registered veterinary practitioner shall be exempt, if he so desires, from serving on an inquest;\n(v) a registered veterinary practitioner shall be eligible to hold any appointment as a veterinary physician, surgeon, or other veterinary officer in any veterinary dispensary, hospital or infirmary supported by, or receiving a grant from, the State Government or in any such public establishment, body or institution dealing with the practice of veterinary science.",
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"number": "24",
"title": "24. Prohibition of veterinary practice by persons not registered.",
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"content": "(i) for the first offence with fine which may extend to two hundred and fifty rupees; and\n(ii) for the second or subsequent offence with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees.",
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"number": "25",
"title": "25. Registered practitioners competent to give valid certificates or expert evidence.",
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"number": "26",
"title": "26. Prohibition against addition of any title, description, etc., to name of any person, unless authorised to do so.",
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"content": "(a) he actually holds such degree, diploma, license or certificate or any other like award, and\n(b) such degree, diploma, licence or certificate or any other like award,\n(i) is recognised by any law for the time being in force in India or in any part thereof, or\n(ii) has been conferred, granted or issued by a body or institution referred to in the Schedule.",
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"number": "27",
"title": "27. Offences under Act to be cognizable.",
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"number": "28",
"title": "28. Indemnity to persons acting under the Act.",
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"content": "Chapter IV\nMiscellaneous",
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"number": "29",
"title": "29. Rules.",
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"content": "(a) for the whole or any part of the State; and\n(b) to provide for all ,or any of the matters expressly required or allowed by this Act to be prescribed by rules.",
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"number": "30",
"title": "30. Regulations.",
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"content": "(a) the manner in which the meetings of the Council shall be convened, held and conducted under Section 8;\n(b) the fees and allowances which may be paid to the members of the Council under Section 10;\n(c) the honoraria which may be paid by the Council to the officers of the State Government for additional work done by them on its behalf with the previous permission of the State Government;\n(d) the conditions of service of the officers and servants appointed under Section 13;\n(e) the fees which shall be payable by a person for having his name entered in the register under sub-section (3) of Section 14, or under Section 15 or for qualification entered or change recorded in the register under sub-section (3) of Section 17;\n(f) the conditions and fees for re-entry of the name of a veterinary practitioner in the register under sub-section (2) of Section 16;\n(g) the manner of preferring an appeal under sub-section (4) of Section 17;\n(h) the renewal fee or the additional fee for re-entry of name in the register payable under Section 18;\n(i) the form of the periodical list, the particulars to be included therein and the manner of its publication under sub-section (3) of Section 19;\n(j) the procedure to be followed in the conduct of inquiries by the Council and in the filing and hearing of appeals made to it;\n(k) any other matter which is to be, or may be, prescribed by regulations.",
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"number": "31",
"title": "31. Budget estimates of Council and Re-appropriation of funds.",
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"number": "32",
"title": "32. Copy of Budget estimate to be forwarded to State Government.",
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"number": "33",
"title": "33. Accounts and their audit.",
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"number": "34",
"title": "34. Control of State Government.",
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"number": "35",
"title": "35. Amendment of Schedule.",
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"content": "Chapter V\nRepeal and Transitional Provisions",
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"number": "36",
"title": "36. Repeal and saving.",
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"number": "37",
"title": "37. Vesting of rights, duties, etc.",
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"content": "(1) all rights of the Council dissolved under sub-section (2) of Section 36 (hereinafter in this Section referred to as \"the dissolved Council\") shall, on the specified date vest in the Council constituted under sub-section (5) of Section 3 (hereinafter in this section referred to as \"the Council\");\n(2) all the property, movable or immovable, which on the day immediately preceding the specified date vested in the dissolved Council shall, subject to all limitations and conditions as were in force on that day, vest in the Council;\n(3) all sums due to the dissolved Council on any amount shall be recoverable by the Council which shall be competent to take any measure or institute any proceedings which it would have been open to the dissolved Council to take or institute if this Act had not come into operation;\n(4) all debts, liabilities and obligations incurred by or on behalf of the dissolved Council, immediately before the specified date and subsisting on the said date, shall be deemed to have been incurred by the Council in exercise of the powers conferred on it by this Act and shall continue in operation accordingly;\n(5) all proceedings and matter pending before any authority or officer immediately before the specified date under the Act repealed under Section 36 shall be deemed to be transferred to and continue before the corresponding authority or officer under this Act competent to entertain such proceedings and matters;\n(6) all prosecutions instituted by or on behalf of or against the dissolved Council and all suits and other legal proceedings instituted by or against the dissolved Council or any officer thereof on behalf of the dissolved Council pending on the specified date, shall be continued by or against the Council;\n(7) all officers and servants in the employ of the dissolved Council immediately before the specified date, shall be officers and servants employed by the Council and shall, until provision is otherwise made in accordance with the provisions of this Act, receive salaries and allowances and be subject to the conditions of service or retirement benefits to which they were entitled or subject on the specified date:\n(i) the service rendered by such officers and servants before the specified date shall be deemed to be service rendered under the Council;\n(ii) if in the opinion of the Council the services of any officer or servant are not necessary or suitable to the requirements of service under it, it may, with the previous approval of the State Government, discontinue the services of any such officer or servant and any officer or servant whose services are so discontinued shall be entitled to receive from the Council such leave, pension, gratuity or other benefits as he would have, if this Act had not been passed, been entitled to receive on being invalided out of service of the dissolved Council and may receive such additional amount by way of compensation as the Council may with the sanction of the State Government determine.",
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