Cattle Export Act of 1864 No 4a (NSW)

No. IX.

Ai i Act to regulate the Exportation of Cattle

from the Ports of Sydney Newcastle and

Eden. [14ft April, 1864.]

WI IEHEAS it is expedient to regulate the exportation of Cattle and to grant certificates of soundness to exporters thereof	Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and
with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows:—
1. The Governor with the advice of the Executive Council may appoint by proclamation published in the Gazette Inspectors of horned cattle hereinafter styled " Cattle Inspectors " at and for the several ports of Sydney Newcastle and Eden and such other ports as the Governor Avith the like advice may deem expedient.
2. Every Cattle Inspector shall before acting in the duties of his office make and subscribe before a Justice of the Peace the follow­ ing declaration—

I A. B. having been appointed a Cattle Inspector at and for the Port of under the " Cattle Export Act of 1 8 6 4 " hereby solemnly declare that I will carefully and diligently examine all cattle sub­ mitted to me for that pivrpose under the said Act and will honestly and to the best of my skill and ability and with­ out favour or affection to any person whomsoever certify to the soundness and freedom from disease of all such and such only as I find to be so sound and free from disease.

3. Every Cattle Inspector shall reside within the port at and

for which he is appointed and shall not be a dealer in cattle or an
owmer thereof.

4. Every Cattle Inspector shall on any and every day except Sunday upon receiving a notice signed by the owner (thereby meaning the actual owmer or the person in charge) of any horned cattle at or in the immediate neighbourhood of the particular port such notice being accompanied by the payment in advance to such Inspector of a sum of money equal to the amount of a fee of one shilling upon each head of cattle mentioned in such notice with all convenient expedition proceed carefully and diligently to examine all the cattle so therein mentioned and shall immediately after such examination if he find that all the said cattle are free from disease but not otherwise give to such owner a certificate under his hand to that effect and shall himself or by some duly authorized agent see the cattle to which such certificate relates embarked on board the vessel by which they are to be exported and shall thereupon deliver such certificate to the captain or person in command of such vessel to be by him handed over to the consignee of such cattle at the port of debarkation.

years.

5. Any person who shall knowingly put on board any vessel by which any such cattle so certified to be free from disease are to be exported or in course of exportation any cattle not so certified shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be liable to imprison­ ment with or without hard labour for anv term not exceeding two

6. The Governor with the advice aforesaid may make regula­ tions as to all matters of detail necessary for carrying this Act into full effect and not herein expressly enacted including the forms of notices and certificates and the performance of their duties by Cattle Inspectors And all such regulations when published in the Gazette shall have the force of law and copies thereof shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament forthwith if sitting and if not then within fourteen days after the opening of the next Session.

7. All fees received under this Act shall be paid over to the Colonial Treasurer and by him be carried to the Consolidated Revenue
Fund.

8. This Act may be cited as the "Cattle Export Act of 1864."