2(1)In the case of a person registered before the commencement of this Act as a colonial practitioner in the register of veterinary surgeons kept in pursuance of the Veterinary Surgeons Act, 1881, his continued registration as such a practitioner shall not be affected by the fact that the Republic is not part of Her Majesty's dominions.
(2)For the purposes of the registration of any person in the said register of veterinary surgeons after the commencement of this Act, the Republic shall be deemed never to have been a British possession.
(3)During the period beginning with the commencement of this Act and ending with the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and sixty-five, subsection (2) of section thirteen of the said Act of 1881 (which entitles persons satisfying certain conditions to be registered as foreign practitioners in the said register) shall have effect in relation to any British subject who shows that he holds some recognised veterinary diploma granted at any time in the Republic as if the condition relating to the practising of veterinary surgery (which applies only to British subjects) were omitted.