New Zealand Legislation: Acts

19 Veterinary approval

• (1) Where a veterinarian issues, under section 18(3), a certificate of veterinary approval, that certificate must state—

  • (a) the full name and address of the person to whom it is issued:

  • (b) if it is issued to a person in that person's capacity as an employee of the owner of an animal, the full name and address of the owner:

  • (c) the type of surgical procedure to which the certificate relates and the species of animal on which the person to whom it is issued may perform that surgical procedure:

  • (d) the duration of the approval given by the certificate.

  (2) The veterinarian who issues the certificate may specify that the approval given by the certificate is to have effect—

  • (a) indefinitely; or

  • (b) for a stated period; or

  • (c) until a stated date.

  (3) Every certificate issued under section 18(3)—

  • (a) comes into force on the date specified in the certificate; and

  • (b) continues in force until—

    • (i) it is revoked under section 20(1); or

    • (ii) it is surrendered under section 20(3); or

    • (iii) in the case of a certificate granted for a stated period or until a stated date, the expiry of that period or the passing of that date.