The Veterinary Surgeons (Examination of Commonwealth and Foreign Candidates) (Amendment) Regulations Order of Council 1998

Made: 5th February 1998

At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 5th day of February 1998 By the Lords of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council

Now, therefore, Their Lordships, having taken the said regulations into consideration, in exercise of the powers conferred by the said sections 25(1) and (2), do hereby order as follows:—

1

The said regulations are hereby approved.

2

The Veterinary Surgeons (Examination of Commonwealth and Foreign Candidates) (Amendment) Regulations Order of Council 1995², which has become spent upon the approval of the regulations approved by this Order, is hereby revoked.

3

This Order may be cited as the Veterinary Surgeons (Examination of Commonwealth and Foreign Candidates) (Amendment) Regulations Order of Council 1998, and shall come into force forthwith.

SCHEDULE — THE VETERINARY SURGEONS (EXAMINATION OF COMMONWEALTH AND FOREIGN CANDIDATES) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS 1997

The Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, in exercise of its powers under section 6(4) of the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1966, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Veterinary Surgeons (Examination of Commonwealth and Foreign Candidates) (Amendment) Regulations 1997.

2

The Veterinary Surgeons (Examination of Commonwealth and Foreign Candidates) (Amendment) Regulations 1967³ are hereby amended:—

3

The Veterinary Surgeons (Examination of Commonwealth and Foreign Candidates) (Amendment) Regulations 1994⁴ are hereby revoked.

Signed

N. H. Nicholls — Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

The Regulations approved by this Order amend the Veterinary Surgeons (Examination of Commonwealth and Foreign Candidates) Regulations 1967 by further increasing the fees payable by persons holding certain Commonwealth or foreign qualifications in veterinary surgery for sitting the whole or part of the statutory examination of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. (The existing fees were fixed in 1995 and are being increased by 40 per cent.)

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