Registration as a Veterinary Surgeon - Western Australia

Description

You will require this registration if you intend to practise as a veterinarian in Western Australia.

A veterinarian provides diagnosis, medical or surgical treatment of disease or injury in animals, provides advice on the health and welfare of animals and public health and safety of animal food products.

This registration is also required if you intend to offer veterinary services as a company or as an animal welfare society. Registration is available for two types of company:

  • where all shareholders are veterinary surgeons
  • where one shareholder is a registered veterinary surgeon and another is a person of good fame or character.

Please note that all veterinary premises must also be separately registered.

Please consult the Contact Officer for more information.

Service type

Licence

A licence defines the need to obtain recognition / certification and registration to undertake a certain business activity.

Eligibility requirements

To be eligible for this registration as an individual you must:

  • provide an original (to sight) or certified copy of your primary veterinary degree
  • provide an original (to sight) or certified copy of your current passport or other photographic ID
  • complete the required forms
  • pay the required fees.

To be eligible for this registration as a body corporate, you must:

  • be a body corporate composed of individual members registered under the Act or be composed of two individual members one of whom is registered under the act and one who is a person of good fame and character
  • maintain professional indemnity insurance or capital sufficient to cover potential liabilities to the public or employees
  • make full disclosure of company affairs to the agency upon request
  • ensure the affairs of the company are controlled by a person who is a registered veterinary surgeon.

If you hold a current equivalent registration in another Australian state or territory, or from certain countries, you may be eligible to apply for registration under mutual recognition arrangements, or with added assessment requirements.

Please consult the Contact Officer for more information regarding eligibility requirements.

Fees

Fees Details for this service in table format.

Task Type Business Structure Amount Description
Apply Application All $607.00

Full registration as veterinary surgeon - one year. After July 1 each year, registration is calculated on a pro rata basis at $45 per month to the end of the year.
Apply Application All $34.00 Honorary registration
Apply Application All $142.00 Application fee for registration
Apply Application All $284.00 Application for new graduates who have not been registered or worked in any other jurisdiction.
Apply Licence All - Temporary - month to month basis for a maximum of three months: $45 + registration fee.

Act(s) name

Veterinary Surgeons Act 1960 WA

Regulation(s) name

Veterinary Surgeons Regulations 1979 WA

Lodgement process

Apply

Registration usually requires an in person interview with the Agency.

Administering agency

Veterinary Surgeons' Board

Contact details

Contact Email, Phone and Address Details for this service in simple two column table format, header then data.

Enquiries, Registrar

Veterinary Surgeons' Board
Operating address: Suite 1, First Floor
275 Marmion Street
Melville
Western Australia 6156
Mailing address: PO BOX 1721
Melville, Western Australia 6156
Phone: 08 9317 2353
Fax: 08 9317 2363
Email: admin@vsbwa.org.au

Supporting information

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