Indian Veterinary Council Act, 1984
No: 52 Dated: Aug, 18 1984
THE INDIAN VETERINARY COUNCIL ACT, 1984
ACT NO. 52 OF 1984
An Act to regulate veterinary practice and to provide, for that purpose, for the establishment of a Veterinary Council of India and State Veterinary Councils and the maintenance of registers of the veterinary practitioners and for matters connected therewith.
WHEREAS it is expedient to make provision for the regulation of veterinary practice and to provide, for that purpose, for the establishment of a Veterinary Council of India and State Veterinary Councils and the maintenance of registers of persons qualified to engage in veterinary practice for the whole of India and for matters connected therewith or ancillary thereto;
AND WHEREAS Parliament has no power to make laws for the States with respect to any of the matters aforesaid except as provided in articles 249 and 250 of the Constitution;
AND WHEREAS in pursuance of clause (1) of article 252 of the Constitution, resolutions have been passed by all the Houses of the Legislatures of the States of Haryana, Bihar, Orissa, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan to the effect that the matters aforesaid should be regulated in those States by Parliament by law;
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Thirty-fifth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
CHAPTER I
Preliminary
1. Short title, extent and commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the Indian Veterinary Council Act, 1984.
(2) It extends, in the first instance, to the whole of the States of Haryana, Bihar, Orissa, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan and to all Union territories; and it shall also extend to such other States as may adopt this Act by resolution passed in that behalf in pursuance of clause (1) of article 252 of the Constitution.
(3) It shall come into force in a State or Union territory to which it extends, or may become extended in future, on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act or for different States or Union territories.
2. Definitions. - In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,--
(a) "Council" means the Veterinary Council of India established under section 3;
(b) "member" means a member of the Council;
(c) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(d) "President" means the President of the Council;
(e) "recognised veterinary qualification" means any of the veterinary qualifications included in the First Schedule or the Second Schedule;
(f) "register" means a register maintained under this Act;
(g) "registered veterinary practitioner" means a person whose name is for the time being duly registered in a register;
(h) "regulation" means a regulation made under this Act;
(i) "State Veterinary Council" means a Veterinary Council established under section 32 and includes a Joint State Veterinary Council established in accordance with an agreement under section 33;
(j) "veterinary institution" means any University or other institution within or without India which grants degrees, diplomas or licences in veterinary science and animal husbandry;
(k) "veterinary medicine" means modern scientific veterinary medicine in all its branches and includes veterinary surgery and obstetrics;
(l) "Vice-President" means the Vice-President of the Council.