Indian Veterinary Council Act : PRELIMINARY Indian Bare Acts :

Indian Veterinary Council Act,1984

Act No : 52

Section : PRELIMINARY

THE INDIAN VETERINARY COUNCIL ACT, 1984 ACT NO. 52 OF 1984 [18th August, 1984.] An Act to regulate veterinary practice and to provide, for that purpose, for the establishment of a Veterinary Council of India and State Veterinary Councils and the maintenance of registers of the veterinary practitioners and for matters connected therewith. WHEREAS it is expedient to make provision for the regulation of veterinary practice and to provide, for that purpose, for the establishment of a Veterinary Council of India and State Veterinary Councils and the maintenance of registers of persons qualified to engage in veterinary practice for the whole of India and for matters connected therewith or ancillary thereto; AND WHEREAS Parliament has no power to make laws for the States with respect to any of the matters aforesaid except as provided in articles 249 and 250 of the Constitution; AND WHEREAS in pursuance of clause (1) of article 252 of the Constitution, resolutions have been passed by all the Houses of the Legislatures of the States of Haryana, Bihar, Orissa, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan to the effect that the matters aforesaid should be regulated in those States by Parliament by law; BE it enacted by Parliament in the Thirty-fifth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-- CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY