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AMENDMENT TO THE VETERINARY AND
PARAVETERINARYACT
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
- Background
- Strategic intent
- Veterinary and Para veterinary professions Act
- Progress to date, draft regulations, issues for
private sector - Parliamentary Procedure
- Way forward and concluding remarks
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BACKGROUND ON THE VETERINARY CRISIS
- Severe human resource (veterinarians) shortages
(gt35 vacancies in the state institutions)
skewed distribution (rural provinces vs
industrialised urban provinces) - Reason Multi-complex
- Salaries allowances, job satisfaction,
career path, resources, leadership, migration
(especially of newly qualified graduates), low
output (? single faculty), employment equity,
crime, etc - National Global challenge
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STRATEGIC INTENT
- Managing migration
- Migration of graduates
- Planned utilization of human resource
- Managing maldistribution
- Geo-maldistribution
- Focus-maldistribution
- Lab exposure (diagnostic, food safety, disease
control, research) - Regulatory medicine (Disease control,
international trade, etc) - Species (production animal medicine, equine
practice)
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THE VETERINARY AND PARAVETERINARY PROFESSIONS ACT
- The Veterinary and Para-Veterinary Professions
Act, 1982 (Act No. 19 of 1982) (the Act) provides
for the establishment, powers and functions of
the South African Veterinary Council (the
Council) - for the registration of persons practising
veterinary professions and para-veterinary
professions - for control over the practising of veterinary
professions and para-veterinary professions - and for matters connected therewith.
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PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE ACT
- Performance of Compulsory Community Service
- It therefore became necessary to develop
legislation to enable the Minister to make
remunerated community service compulsory for
persons who register for the first time as
veterinarians in terms of the Act, and to make
regulations concerning the performance of
compulsory community service. - Establishment of the appeal committee
- increasing number of decisions of various
committees of Council that are referred to
Council for review, it has become necessary to
appoint an appeal committee with the necessary
expertise to deal with these applications for
review.
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PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE ACT
- Inclusion of physiological condition in the
definition of veterinary services - Only a duly qualified and registered veterinarian
and para-veterinary professional is allowed to
diagnose, treat, prevent and advise on a
physiological condition in an animal in terms of
section 23(2)(a)(ii) read with rule 2(a).
However, section 23(2)(d) does not include any
reference to a physiological condition and an
amendment is sought to avoid any conflict between
the two sections and to clarify the definition
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PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE ACT
- Continued registration of foreign veterinarian by
attaining permanent residency - The purpose of the amendment is to provide for
continued registration of a veterinarian with a
foreign qualification on receiving permanent
residency status in South Africa. - Registration of a person who has completed the
relevant qualifications but which has not been
conferred - The amendment is required to permit the
registration of a person who has completed the
academic requirements for diplomas/degrees to
practise a veterinary or para-veterinary
profession upon the receipt of clear indication
from the institutions of the date of compliance
with the academic requirements of the programme.
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PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE
- The state law advisors advise that it is not
necessary for the Bill to go through the National
house of traditional Leaders in terms of section
18(1)(a) of the Traditional Leadership and
Governance Framework Act, 2003 (Act 40 of 2003),
since it does not contain provision pertaining to
customary law or customs of traditional
communities
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CCS PROGRESSION
- Consultations 2006-2008 using consensus
approach - 2008/2009- costing, budgets and MTEF securing of
funds - Treasury has approved R90M for 01 April 2011 to
31 March 2012 - 2009/2010 Draft Bill and Draft Regulations
consultations with State Law Advisers - 2010 -Approval of the Bill in DAFF
- 2011-Parliamentary process
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