Amendment of Public Health (Dairy) Regulations (ACT)

THE TERRITORY FOR THE SEAT

OF GOVERNMENT.

Regulations under the Public Health Ordinance 1928-30.
T CHARLES WILLIAM CLANAN MARE, Minister of State for A, Health, for the Minister of State for the Interior, in pursuance of the powers conferred by the Seat of Government {Administration) Ordinance 1930 and the Public Health Ordinance 1928-1930, hereby make the following regulation to come into operation forthwith.
Dated this first day of December, One thousand nine hundred and thirty-three.

C. W. C. MARR

For Minister of State for the Interior.

AMENDMENT OF PUULIC HEALTH (DAIRY) REGULATIONS.

1.—Regulation fourteen of the Public Health (Dairy) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—
"14,—(1.) The owner of any animal which reacts specifically compensation to the tuberculin test shall isolate the animal or cause it to bo destroyed SfepteTwfth or otherwise dealt with as au authorized veterinary officer requires. tuberculosis. "(2.) Before any animal is destroyed a valuation of the animal
shall be made by the owner and an authorized veterinary officer.
"(3.) The valuation shall be calculated upon the market value as indicated by current prices at the nearest sale yard on the date of valuation.
" (4.) Where the owner and the officer do not agree upon a valuation the matter shall be submitted to the Minister, whose decision thereon shall be final.
"(5.) The Minister shall pay to the owner of any animal so destroyed a sum equivalent to fifty per centum of the value of the animal as assessed in accordance with this regulation:

Provided that, where the animal is sold for slaughter or where the carcass of the animal destroyed is sold, the sum payable by the Minister shall be fifty per centum of the assessed value of the animal less the sum received from the sale."

Authorised by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel—also accessible at

SJ. Regulation fifteen of the Public Health (Dairy) Regulations is

amended by omitting the figure " (4) " and inserting in its stead the

figure "(1 . )" .