Biosecurity and Agriculture Management (Identification and Movement of Stock and Apiaries) Amendment Regulations 2022 (WA)

25 February 2022 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 433

AGRICULTURE AND FOOD

AG301

Biosecurity and Agriculture Management Act 2007

Biosecurity and Agriculture Management

(Identification and Movement of Stock and

Apiaries) Amendment Regulations 2022

SL 2022/17

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

1.   Citation

These regulations are the Biosecurity and Agriculture

Management (Identification and Movement of Stock and
Apiaries) Amendment Regulations 2022.

2.   Commencement

These regulations come into operation as follows —

(a)	regulations 1 and 2 — on the day on which these regulations are published in the Gazette;
(b)	the rest of the regulations — on 1 April 2022.

3. Regulations amended

These regulations amend the Biosecurity and Agriculture

Management (Identification and Movement of Stock and
Apiaries) Regulations 2013.

4.           Regulation 3 amended

In regulation 3 insert in alphabetical order:

poultry means a bird of a species (including a hybrid of

a species) that is set out in the Biosecurity and

Agriculture Management Regulations 2013 Schedule 1

item 11 column 3;

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5.            Regulation 4 amended

In regulation 4

(a)	after paragraph (e) insert: (ea) an emu;
(b)	after paragraph (i) insert: (ia) poultry;

6.            Regulation 7 amended

Delete regulation 7(2) and insert:

(2) Subregulation (1) does not apply to a person who owns
or purchases emus, ostriches or poultry if

(a) the person owns

(i)     fewer than 50 poultry; and

(ii)     fewer than 10 emus and ostriches (in any combination);

and

(b) the person is not an owner or purchaser of any
other species of stock.

7.            Part 7 Division 3 deleted

Delete Part 7 Division 3.

8.            Regulation 188 amended

In regulation 188(b) delete "ostrich; or" and insert:

V. MOLAN, Clerk of the Executive Council. emu or ostrich, or poultry; or