Power of Council to prohibit entry in or order removal from register of names, etc.

(1) The Council may upon reference from the Registrar or otherwise prohibit the entry in or order the removal from the register of the name of any veterinary practitioner— (a) who has been sentenced by a criminal court or a court martial to imprisonment for an offence indicating in the opinion of the Council such defect in character as would render the entry or continuance of his name in the register undesirable ; or (b) whom the Council after inquiry, in which an opportunity has been given to him of being heard, has found guilty, by a majority of two-thirds of the members present and voting at the meeting of infamous conduct in any professional respect. (2) Nothing in sub-section (1) shall be deemed to justify the exclusion or removal from the register of the name of any veterinary practitioner on the ground of his adoption of a theory of veterinary medicine or surgery not in accordance with the accepted view for the time being or of his association with an unregistered veterinary practitioner, so long as the unregistered veterinary practitioner— (a) is in possession of a veterinary qualification included in the Schedule ; (b) is not a person whose name the Council has reason to believe has been excluded or removed from the register by it under sub-section (1) or would be so excluded if application for registration thereof were made. (3) The name of a person whose name has been prohibited from being entered or removed under sub-section (1) shall be entered or re-entered in the register on the expiry of such period as may be fixed by the Council in this behalf, as the case may be.