Mr. Gerry Neary:

My understanding is that, from a legal point of view, one cannot retrospectively impose the stipulation that only vets can own a practice when the law was silent on the matter beforehand. We have never gone the route of making that point about practices that have already been bought. We have always been clearly of the view that those practices are operating outside the Veterinary Practice Act and in complete contravention of the animal remedies regulations.