Amendments of the Stock Diseases Regulations 1935 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY.

Regulations 1958. No. 6.

Regulations under the Stock Diseases Ordinance 1933-1958.*

I DONALD ALASTAIR CAMERON, the Minister of State for Health, , in pursuance of the powers conferred by the Stock Diseases Ordinance

1933-1958, hereby make the following Regulations.

Dated this first day of May, 1958.

DONALD A. CAMERON

Minister of State for Health.

AMENDMENTS OF THE STOCK DISEASES REGULATIONS 1935.t

1. Regulation 6 of the Stock Diseases Regulations 1935 is amended by omitting paragraph (d) of sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—

" (d) unless—

(i) a Permit for Movement of Stock in accordance with Form 3 of the Regulations has been issued in respect of the movement of the cattle into the Territory by an Inspector and the terms and con- ditions of the Permit have been complied with; or

(ii) the cattle have been brought into the Territory from an area which has been declared under section 11A of the "Stock Diseases Act, 1923-1934" of the State of New South Wales to be a pleuro- pneumonia protected area and the cattle have not, in the course of being brought into the Territory, travelled outside that area.".

178/58.—PRICE 3D.

2. After regulation 7 of the Stock Diseases Regulations 1935 the following regulation is inserted:—

" 7 A . — ( 1 . ) Subject to sub-regulation (7.) of this regulation, a person,

not being a veterinary surgeon, shall not artificially inseminate stock unless—

(a) the Director has, by writing under his hand, authorized that

person to perform artificial inseminations; and

(b) that person acts under the supervision of an Inspector who is

a veterinary surgeon.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 8th May, 1958.

t For references to the Commonwealth Gazettes in which the original Regulations and

amendments made before 1939 were notified, see footnote (a) on page 479 of Vol. II of
"Laws of the Australian Capital Territory 1911-1938" and, for later amendments, see
Regulations 1953, No. 4.

" (2.) Subject to sub-regulation (7.) of this regulation, a person shall not use semen produced in the Territory from a male animal for the pur- pose of artificially inseminating a female animal unless—

(a) the male animal has been declared by an Inspector to be free

from disease; and

(Z>) the approval of the Director has first been obtained.

" (3.) A person shall not bring into the Territory semen produced from a male animal outside the Territory unless the approval of the Director has first been obtained.

" (4.) A person shall not use semen produced from a male animal in a State or Territory of the Commonwealth outside the Territory for the purpose of artificially inseminating a female animal in the Territory unless—

(a) the semen has been produced in a State or Territory the laws of which provide for the licensing of artificial insemination centres;
(6) the semen has been produced at an artificial insemination centre

so licensed;

(c) the artificial insemination centre is under the control of a

veterinary surgeon;

(d) the Director has received a certificate in accordance with Schedule 2. to these Regulations in respect of the animal from which the semen was produced signed by the veterinary surgeon in charge of the centre at which the semen was produced; and

(e) the Director is satisfied that the semen has been stored and transported from that centre into the Territory in such a manner that the semen is not likely to introduce disease.

" (5.) A person shall not use any premises for the purpose of collect- ing, processing or distributing semen unless the Director has, by writing under his hand, approved of the use of the premises for that purpose.

" (6.) A person who performs an artificial insemination shall, within one month after the performance of the insemination, furnish to the Director a return containing particulars in relation to the following matters:—

(b) the place where the insemination was performed;	(a) the date on which the insemination was performed;
(c) the name and address of the owner of the female animal upon

which the insemination was performed;

(d) the identity of the male animal from which the semen was pro-
duced and the female animal upon which the insemination
was performed; and :
(e) whether the insemination was the first insemination since the
last preceding parturition of the female animal and, if the

insemination was not the first insemination, then the number

of previous inseminations since that parturition.

" (7.) Sub-regulations (1.) and (2.) of this regulation do not apply to or in relation to the artificial insemination of an animal in a herd or flock performed by the owner or by a veterinary surgeon acting for the owner of that herd or flock, where the semen used is collected from a male animal or male animals normally maintained as part of that herd or flock.

" (8.) In this regulation, ' veterinary surgeon' means a person regis- tered or licensed as a veterinary surgeon under a law of a State or Terri- tory that provides for the registration or licensing of veterinary surgeons.". 3. After Schedule 1. to the Stock Diseases Regulations 1935 the follow-

ing Schedule is inserted:-—

SCHEDULE 2.

Regulation 7A.

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY.

Stock Diseases Ordinance 1933-1958.

Stock Diseases Regulations 1935.

HEALTH CERTIFICATE.

I, , a Veterinary Surgeon regis-

tered under the Veterinary Surgeons Act of , being in

charge of the	Artificial Insemination Centre, certify that
the semen in the consignment marked	is to
the best of my knowledge and belief derived from	^ ^ a n i m a l s ' ~

(a) that w ^ located for at least six months immediately preceding the date

of collection in the abovementioned Artificial Insemination Centre;

(6) that , a s been tested and proved free from Tuberculosis and Brucellosis;

(c) that „ „ not affected with Trichomoniasis, Vibriosis or other contagious

are

disease; and

(d) that . been proved to be fertile.

Dated this day of , 19 .

Veterinary Surgeon in Charge of Artificial

Insemination Centre.

By Authority: A. J. ARTHUR, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.