Singapore legislation

Clause 15

Registers

(1)

The Registrar must keep and maintain the following registers:

(a)

a register called “The Register of Veterinarians with Full Registration”, containing the particulars mentioned in subsection (2) of individuals who are registered as veterinarians with full registration;

(b)

a register called “The Register of Veterinarians with Restricted Registration”, containing the particulars mentioned in subsection (2) of individuals who are registered as veterinarians with restricted registration;

(c)

a register called “The Register of Specialists”, containing the particulars mentioned in subsection (2) of individuals who are registered as specialists.

(2)

The particulars of each individual to be contained in a register are the following:

(a)

the individual’s name and residential address;

(b)

the business name and address of the individual’s primary place of practice, if any;

(c)

the date of the registration of the individual;

(d)

the individual’s qualification for registration and the date the individual obtained that qualification;

(e)

in the case of a specialist, each branch of veterinary medicine in which the individual is registered as a specialist;

(f)

any other particulars as the Council may determine.

(3)

Every individual whose name is entered in a register must inform the Registrar in writing of —

(a)

subject to subsection (5), any change in the individual’s name or residential address;

(b)

any change in the business name or address of the individual’s primary place of practice;

(c)

any withdrawal or cancellation of the individual’s qualification for registration; or

(d)

any change in any other prescribed particulars,within 28 days after the change, withdrawal or cancellation.

(4)

An individual who contravenes subsection (3) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000.

(5)

An individual who makes a report of a change in his or her residential address under section 10 of the National Registration Act 1965 is deemed to have complied with subsection (3)(a) on the date that he or she makes the report.

(6)

The Registrar may disclose any information in a register to any prescribed person, subject to any prescribed condition.

(7)

Subsection (6) does not affect any other right or duty to disclose the information under general or written law.

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