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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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