Section 17

Upon such application and payment, the Council, if satisfied that the premises at, and the conditions under, which the applicant practises or proposes to practise veterinary medicine are suitable for such practice, shall cause the Registrar to issue a certificate (to be styled “annual practising certificate”) authorising the applicant to practise veterinary medicine at such premises during the year for which the certificate is issued.

Subject to the provisions of this Act, the annual practising certificate shall be in force until the thirty first day of December of the year in respect of which it is issued.

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Any registered veterinary surgeon who fails to apply for an annual practising certificate in the manner and within the period laid down in subsection (1), may, on making an application in such form and on payment of such additional fee as may be prescribed, be granted an annual practising certificate for the ensuing year, if the application is made during the month of December of any year, or for the remainder of the year, if the application is made on or after the first day of January of any year.

Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, where a registered veterinary surgeon applies for an annual practising certificate for the first time after obtaining registration, the application shall be in the prescribed form and may be made at any time during the year, and the applicant shall, upon payment of the prescribed fee, be granted an annual practising certificate for the remainder of the year in which the application is made.

An annual practising certificate and an application thereof shall specify the address of the principal place of practice and all other places of practice of the applicant, and any change in any such address shall be notified by the practitioner to the Registrar and an endorsement of such change on the annual practising certificate obtained from the Registrar within thirty days of such change.

Whenever it appears to the satisfaction of the Council that a registered veterinary surgeon is practising veterinary medicine in such premises or under such conditions as are deemed by the Council to be unsuitable for such practice, the Council may direct that the annual practising certificate of such practitioner be cancelled, and such certificate shall thereupon cease to be in force and no further annual practising certificate shall be issued to such practitioner thereafter either for the remainder of the year or for any other year except as provided in subsection (8).

If any veterinary surgeon whose annual practising certificate has been cancelled under subsection (7) makes an application in such manner as may be prescribed and pays such fee as may be prescribed, the Council may, after due consideration of the circumstances of the

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case, direct that an annual practising certificate be issued to such veterinary surgeon.

A registered veterinary surgeon who practises veterinary medicine and who—