Veterinary Practice (Amendment) Act 2012

Reports of Fitness to Practise Committee.

4.— The Principal Act is amended—

(a) in section 79, by substituting for subsection (1) the following:

“79.— (1) Following an inquiry under section 78, the Fitness to Practise Committee shall make a report of the inquiry and its findings to the Council and shall specify in the report—

(a) the nature of the application,

(b) the evidence laid before it,

(c) any other matter in relation to the registered person to whom the inquiry relates as it considers appropriate, and

(d) its opinion as to whether one or more of the grounds specified in section 76(1) were found to be proven.”,

and

(b) in section 80(1), by substituting for all the words from “Where the Council receives a report” down to and including “any of the following—” the following:

“80.— (1) Where the Council receives a report from the Fitness to Practise Committee under section 79(1), in which that Committee gives as its opinion that one or more of the grounds specified in section 76(1) were found to be proven, it may decide to do any of the following—”.