Regulatory Exemptions for Members
Status: Regulatory concept received general consensus at Transition Council at the December 5, 2024 meeting. Prior to public consultation, the Transition Council will review all the proposed concepts again.
Overview
Under the Veterinary Professionals Act, authorized activities (and potentially all forms of clinical veterinary medicine) will be performed by members at or from an accredited facility, unless otherwise specifically stated.
Circumstances will be clearly laid out in regulation to indicate when a member (either a veterinarian or veterinary technician) is permitted to perform authorized activities (and potentially all forms of clinical veterinary medicine) outside of an accredited veterinary facility. This allowance would not remove the College’s general ongoing oversight of these members but instead would permit them to carry out their practice outside of the accreditation model.
The regulatory concept proposes that a member working for the Crown (either federally or provincially), or a member working under another piece of provincial or federal legislation would be able to practice authorized activities under the following specific circumstances:
- The member is acting in accordance with the terms of their employment by the Crown
or
- The member is acting in accordance with another piece of legislation; and
- The services being provided by the members are not being provided to animals owned by members of the public.