Renew 2024 Registration – Lodge 2023 Annual Return

2024 Registrations and 2023 Annual Returns have now closed. If you have any concerns or enquiries please contact us on 08 8359 3334 or send an email to [email protected]

Instructions for Veterinary Surgeons

You must complete the online process personally by no later than 31 December 2023. Completion of an annual return is a professional obligation under the Veterinary Practice Act 2003 and you should not delegate this task to another person. You must declare that you have personally completed the annual return prior to lodgement.

Please take care when answering all questions in the annual return. It is an offence under section 68 of the Veterinary Practice Act 2003 to provide information in an annual return that is false or misleading.

Fees: The 2024 annual practice fee for general registration has been fixed under the Veterinary Practice Act 2003. The fee must be paid by no later than 31 December 2023. All fees can be found here

Late fees: Please note that a late fee of $262 has been fixed under the Veterinary Practice Act 2003 to apply to all renewals of registration received after 31 December 2023. To avoid incurring the late renewal of registration fee, please renew your registration by completing the online process by no later than 31 December 2023.

Not renewing registration: If you do not wish to renew your registration for the 2024 calendar year, you must still lodge an annual return for the 2023 calendar year. Please do so by clicking ‘Lodge’ at the bottom of this screen. You will be prompted to answer questions relating to the 2023 calendar year. Please select the option ‘I do not wish to renew registration as a veterinary surgeon for the year ending 31 December 2024‘.

Important information:
Please make sure to complete all sections of this form. Once finished, a confirmation message stating “Form successfully submitted” will be visible to all users upon submission. Additionally, users will receive an email containing the details of their completed form. Users renewing their registration will also be sent an email with a digital payment receipt. If you do not receive these emails within 20 minutes of form completion, kindly check your ‘junk’ or ‘spam’ folder. If no emails are received despite a successful form submission, please contact us at 08 8359 3334 or send an email to [email protected]

Working to ensure those in the profession achieve and maintain high professional standards of competence and conduct in their provision of veterinary treatment.

Correspondence Policy

We recommend using our postal address if your correspondence is sensitive and/or includes hard copy or confidential attachments (such as photos or documents). Please ensure you include a return postal address.

Our approach
When we perform our work, we aim to be fair, impartial, consistent, respectful, courteous.

How you can help us
To allow us to perform our work effectively and efficiently, we expect that you will familiarise yourself with our correspondence policy, give us accurate and complete information, treat us with respect and courtesy.

We aim to respond to correspondence, where required, within 20 working days of receipt.

Sometimes the matters raised in correspondence are complex and require detailed investigation in which case our response time will be longer.

There may be occasions where the issues you raise are outside our responsibilities. In this case we will refer you to the appropriate organisation or government department/agency. We encourage you to check to see if your issue is within our jurisdiction before you correspond with us. For example, if your enquiry relates to the ability of a veterinary surgeon to obtain, possess, prescribe or dispense Schedule 4 drugs, please direct your enquiry to the Office of the Chief Pharmacist: [email protected]. If your enquiry relates to the ability of a veterinary surgeon to obtain, possess, prescribe or dispense Schedule 8 drugs, please direct your enquiry to SA Health: [email protected]

We do not provide legal advice or personal advisory services to members of the community, veterinary services providers or veterinary surgeons.

We will only respond to items where we are the primary recipient. We will not respond to correspondence where we have been included as a carbon copy.

We will delete unsolicited advertisements without response.

We will not respond to correspondence containing offensive language or content.

We will forward any correspondence containing threatening content or advocating illegal activities to South Australia Police.

Your correspondence, once received, will become an official record of the Veterinary Surgeons Board of South Australia.