Amendments of the Stock Diseases Regulations (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY.

Regulations 1953. No. 4.

Regulations under the Stock Diseases

Ordinance 1933-1939.*

I E A E L E P A G E , Minister of State for Health, in pursuance of the ,

powers conferred by the Stock Diseases Ordinance 1933-1939, hereby make the following Regulations.

Dated this fifth day of March, 1953.

E A R L E P A G E

Minister of State for Health.

AMENDMENTS OF THE STOCK DISEASES REGULATIONS.

1. Regulation 3 of the Stock Diseases Regulations is amended by omitting the definition of " d i s e a s e " and inserting in its stead the following definition:—

" ' disease' means a disease which the Minister, pursuant to section 4 of the Ordinance, declares to be a disease for the purposes of the Ordinance.".

2. Regulation 5 of the Stock Diseases Regulations is amended by omitting the word " Stock " (first occurring) and inserting in its stead the words " Subject to the next succeeding regulation, stock ".

3. Regulation 6 of the Stock Diseases Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

" 6.—(1.) Notwithstanding the last preceding regulation and subject to the next succeeding sub-regulation, a person shall not bring, or permit to be brought, cattle into the Terri tory—

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(a ) if the cattle are effected with contagious pleuro-pneumonia
of cattle or have been in contact with cattle so affected;
(b) unless the owner or person in charge of the cattle has
delivered to an Inspector a declaration made by that
owner or that person that the cattle have not been in

contact with cattle affected with contagious pleuro-

pneumonia of cattle;

(c) unless, if so required by the Inspector, the cattle have been submitted to the Inspector for examination and the owner or person in charge of the cattle has furnished to the Inspector such other evidence as the Inspector requires to satisfy himself that the cattle have not been in contact with* cattle affected with contagious pleuro-pneumonia of cattle; and

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 10Hi March, 3053.

(d) unless a Permit for Movement of Stock in accordance with Form 3 of the Eegulations has been issued in respect of the movement of the cattle into the Terri tory by an Inspector and the terms and conditions of the Permit have been complied with.

" (2.) Where—

(a) a person applies for a Permit for Movement of Stock in

respect of the movement of cattle into the Terr i tory;

(b) the cattle have been twice subjected by a Government Veterinary Surgeon to the complement fixation test for contagious pleuro-pneumonia of cattle at an interval of not less than twenty-one days with negative results; and

(c) the cattle and other cattle, if any, in the herd of which they

form a part—

( i ) have not been affected with contagious pleuro-

pneumonia of catt le; and

(i i) have not been in contact with cattle so affected during the period of three years immediately preceding the date of the application for the Permit for Movement of Stock,

the cattle shall be deemed not to be affected with contagious pleuro- pneumonia of cattle and not to have been in contact with cattle So affected and it is not necessary for a person to comply with paragraphs (b) and (c) of the last preceding sub-regulation with respect to the movement of those cattle into the Terri tory.

" (3.) I n this regulation—

' Government Veterinary Surgeon ' means a person who is a Government Veterinary Surgeon for the purposes of P a r t I X . of the Regulations;

' Inspector ' includes a person who is an Inspector for the pur-

poses of P a r t I X . of the Regulations;

' t h e Regulat ions ' means the Regulations made under the Stock

Diseases Act, 1923-1934, of the State of New South

"Wales.".

By Authori ty: L. F. JOIIXSTOU, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra