Veterinary Surgeons Act, 1931

The establishment of the register.

24.—(1) As soon as may be after the preliminary establishment of the Council, the Council shall prepare and establish, in such form as they may prescribe by regulations made by them, a register of veterinary surgeons to be known as “The Register of Veterinary Surgeons for Saorstát Eireann” and in this Act referred to as the register.

(2) As soon as the Council is in a position to appoint a date for the establishment of the register and in any event not later than six months after the preliminary establishment of the Council, the Council shall communicate in writing to the Minister the date on which they desire the register to be established, and thereupon the Minister shall by notice published by him in the Iris Oifigiúil declare that the register shall be established as on and from the date so communicated to him or such other date as the Minister, after consultation with the Council, may think proper to specify in such notice.

(3) The notice to be published in the Iris Oifigiúil pursuant to the foregoing sub-section shall be so published not less than one month before the date specified therein for the establishment of the register.

(4) All references in this Act to the establishment of the register as a point in time shall be construed as referring to the date declared by the Minister under this section to be the date as on and from which the register shall be established.

(5) From and after the establishment of the register the Council shall maintain and keep the register in accordance with this Act and the regulations made by the Council thereunder.