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

Rules

Rules relating to the Practising of Veterinary Professions: Amendment

Part V : Minimum standards for veterinary facilities

25. General requirements at veterinary facilities

 

 

(1) A veterinary facility shall have the necessary facilities in order to ensure that—
(a) a diagnostic service, including imaging diagnosis, can be rendered there or access to such a service is readily available;
(b) an emergency and intensive care service can be rendered there;
(c) a laboratory service for its own requirements can be rendered there, which veterinary facility shall have at its disposal routine equipment including at least a microscope, centrifuge and refractometer, or access to such service;
(d) a pharmacy service for its own requirements can be rendered there, and shall be maintained as well as administered in accordance with relevant legislation; and
(e) post mortem examinations can be done there.

 

(2) During the consulting hours specified on a notice board the veterinary facility shall be manned by a person registered to practise a veterinary profession.

 

(3) An animal with a contagious disease shall not be hospitalised at a veterinary facility unless facilities for the isolation thereof exist.

 

(4) Only routine surgery that is not complicated abdominal, orthopaedic or cardiovascular surgery may be performed at a consulting room. If such routine surgery is performed at a consulting room, the provisions of rule 31(1)(b) shall be complied with.