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Veterinary and Para-Veterinary Professions Act, 1982 (Act No. 19 of 1982)

20A. Compulsory community service

 

(1) From the date of commencement of section 3 of the Veterinary and Para-Veterinary Professions Amendment Act, 2012, any person registering for the first time to practise a veterinary profession or para-veterinary profession in terms of this Act, shall perform in the prescribed manner compulsory community service in that veterinary profession or para-veterinary profession for a period of one year and shall, upon completion of such service, be entitled to practise the profession for which he or she is registered.

 

(2) The Minister, may after consultation with the council, prescribe the performance of compulsory community service contemplated in subsection (1), including but not limited to—
(a) the registration of persons for compulsory community service;
(b) the conditions of employment pertaining to persons who perform such service;
(c) the places at which compulsory community service is to be performed; and
(d) the conditions subject to which the service may be interrupted.

 

(3) The Minister may, after consultation with the council, prescribe the circumstances under which a person contemplated in subsection (1) may be exempted from performance of the compulsory community service.

 

[Section 20A inserted by section 3 of Act No. 16 of 2012]