Animal Diseases (Emergency Outbreaks) Amendment (Delegations) Regulation 2012 (NSW)

2012 No 56

New South Wales

Animal Diseases (Emergency

Outbreaks) Amendment (Delegations)

Regulation 2012

under the

Animal Diseases (Emergency Outbreaks) Act 1991

Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Animal Diseases (Emergency Outbreaks) Act 1991.

KATRINA HODGKINSON, MP

Minister for Primary Industries

Explanatory note
The object of this Regulation is to prescribe the persons to whom the Minister administering the Animal Diseases (Emergency Outbreaks) Act 1991 may delegate all or any of the Minister’s functions under that Act. Those persons are in addition to the Director-General of the Department of Trade and Investment, Regional Infrastructure and Services, the Chief Veterinary Officer and the Deputy Chief Veterinary Officers, to whom the Act already provides that functions can be delegated.

This Regulation is made under the Animal Diseases (Emergency Outbreaks) Act 1991, including sections 67 (the delegation power) and 78 (the general regulation-making power).

Published LW 24 February 2012 Page 1

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Clause 1	Regulation 2012

Animal Diseases (Emergency Outbreaks) Amendment

(Delegations) Regulation 2012

under the

Animal Diseases (Emergency Outbreaks) Act 1991

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Animal Diseases (Emergency Outbreaks)
Amendment (Delegations) Regulation 2012.

2      Commencement

This Regulation commences on the day on which it is published on the
NSW legislation website.

Animal Diseases (Emergency Outbreaks) Amendment (Delegations)	2012 No 56
Regulation 2012
Amendment of Animal Diseases (Emergency Outbreaks) Regulation 2008	Schedule 1
Schedule 1	Amendment of Animal Diseases (Emergency Outbreaks) Regulation 2008

Clause 6

Omit the clause. Insert instead:

6      Delegations

For the purposes of section 67 of the Act, the persons holding the following positions in the Department of Primary Industries (being a separate office of that name within the Department, within the meaning of the Act) are prescribed:

(a)	Director General,
(b)	Deputy Director General, Agriculture,
(c)	Executive Director, Biosecurity NSW,
(d)	Executive Director, Fisheries NSW,
(e)	Director, Agricultural Production and Industry

Development,

(f)	Director, Animal Biosecurity,
(g)	Director, Aquaculture, Conservation and Marine Parks,
(h)	Director, Biosecurity Compliance,

(i)      Director, Biosecurity Operations,

(j)	Director, Fisheries Compliance,
(k)	Director, Fisheries Research,
(l)	Director, Industry Development, Agriculture and Forestry,
(m)	Director, Invasive Plants and Animals.