Veterinary Surgeons Act, 1931

The Veterinary Register.

41.—(1) The Council shall in every year cause to be printed, published, and sold under the title “The Veterinary Register of Saorstát Eireann” (in this Act referred to as the Veterinary Register) a correct list, in such form as shall be prescribed by the Council, of the names of all persons whose names are entered in the register on the 1st day of January of such year.

(2) The Council may, if it so thinks proper, refrain from publishing the Veterinary Register in the year in which the register is established, but if the Council does publish the Veterinary Register in such year such Veterinary Register shall be a list of the names of all persons whose names are entered in the register on the day after the establishment of the register.

(3) The Council shall arrange the names contained in the Veterinary Register in three lists, of which the first list shall contain the names of those persons who (not being foreign practitioners) are registered in the general veterinary register as well as in the register, and the second list shall contain the names of those persons who (not being foreign practitioners) are registered in the register and are not registered in the general veterinary register, and the third list shall contain the names of foreign practitioners, and the Council may subdivide the last-mentioned list into such and so many sub-lists as they may think fit.

(4) Every separate list and sub-list of names contained in the Veterinary Register under this section shall be arranged in such list or sub-list in alphabetical order of surnames and in the case of persons having the same surname, in alphabetical order of Christian names, and shall contain after or opposite the name of every such person his address and qualifications as stated in the register on the appropriate 1st day of January or, in the case of the Veterinary Register published in the year in which the register is established, on the day after the establishment of the register.

(5) A copy purporting to be a copy printed and published by or for the Council under this section of the Veterinary Register which is for the time being the latest Veterinary Register so printed and published shall be evidence in any court, until the contrary is proved, that every person whose name is entered in such Veterinary Register is registered in the register under and in accordance with this Act and that any person whose name is not entered in such Veterinary Register is not so registered.

(6) A certificate purporting to be signed by the registrar and to certify that on a specified day or days or during the whole of a specified period a particular person was duly registered in the register or that on a specified day or days or during the whole of a specified period a particular person was not registered in the register or that on a specified day the name of a particular person was erased from the register shall, without proof of the signature of the person purporting to sign such certificate or that he was the registrar and notwithstanding any discrepancy between such certificate and the Veterinary Register, be conclusive evidence of the matters certified in and by such certificate.