Veterinarians

All people working as veterinarians in New Zealand must by law (Veterinarians Act 2005) be registered with the Veterinary Council of New Zealand and hold a current practising certificate.
 
The links on the left of this page and below will direct you to the services that the Council provides and the duties it performs:

• Registration of New Zealand trained and overseas trained veterinarians
   
• Consideration of applications for specialist registration
   
• Consideration of applications for limited registration and scopes of practice
   
• Annual practising certificate renewal process
   
• Development of the Code of Professional Conduct
   
• Administration of records of Continuing Professional Development
   
• Competence assessments of veterinarians
   
• Receipt of complaints against veterinarians and complaint investigation
   
• Determination on charges of professional misconduct or other disciplinary matters
   
• Management of situations where a veterinarian's fitness to practise may be in question due to health issues
   
• Management of other fitness to practise issues
   
• Maintainance of the register of veterinarians which lists contact addresses of veterinarians and their employers
   
• Provision of information to veterinarians heading overseas to work
   
• Fees - statutory and service fees
   
• Provision of information for employers
   

Other functions of Council include:

• Provision of advice to government and to University councils
   
• Development of policy and procedures to implement the Veterinarians Act e.g. on the recognition of universities, degree training programmes and assessment programmes and recognition of specialist branches of veterinary practice
   
• Liaison with Australian and other overseas veterinary registration bodies
   

 

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