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Foreign practitioners.
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32.—(1) Any person who was trained and is for the time being registered as a veterinary surgeon in any country which is for the time being recognised by the Council for the purposes of this section shall be entitled, on making the prescribed application and paying the fees required by this Act to be paid on such application, to be registered in the register.
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(2) The Council may recognise for the purposes of this section any country (other than the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) in which there is in force at the time of such recognition legislation—
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(a) providing for the registration by a public authority of persons engaged in the practice of veterinary surgery and medicine; and
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(b) requiring for such registration a standard of training and knowledge which is in the opinion of the Council not lower than the standard of training and knowledge necessary for obtaining the right to be registered under this Act; and
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(c) providing for the admission of persons registered under this Act to registration under such legislation on terms which, in the opinion of the Council, are reasonably equivalent to the terms on which persons registered under such legislation are admitted to registration under this Act.
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(3) The Council may at any time cease to recognise for the purposes of this section any country previously so recognised.
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(4) Persons registered in the register under this section are in this Act referred to as foreign practitioners.
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