Cattle Industry Compensation Act Amendment Act 1969 (WA)

1969.] Cattle Industry Compensation. [No. 14.

CATTLE INDUSTRY

COMPENSATION.

No. 14 of 1969.

AN ACT to amend the Cattle Industry

Compensation Act, 1965.

[Assented to 6th May, 1969.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Cattle gritItn.

Industry Compensation Act Amendment Act, 1969.

(2) In this Act the Cattle Industry Compensation

Act, 1965 is referred to as the principal Act.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may

be cited as the Cattle Industry Compensation Act,

1965-1969.

No. 14.] Cattle Industry Compensation. [1969.

8. 6

amended. 2. Section six of the principal Act is amended by

substituting for the interpretation, "disease" the

following interpretation

"disease" means tuberculosis, actinomycosis, brucellosis and any other enzootic disease, within the meaning of the Stock Diseases (Regulations) Act, 1968, of cattle that the Governor may by proclamation declare to be a disease for the purposes of this Act; and the term "diseased" has a correspond- ing meaning; .

S. /1

Subsection (1) of section eleven of the prin- cipal Act is amended by adding after the word, "bacteriological", in line two, the passage, ", serological" .

amended. 3.

S. 19

Section nineteen of the principal Act is amended by substituting for the passage, "by section eleven of the Stock Diseases Act, 1895;", in. lines four and five of paragraph (b), the passage, "pursuant to the Stock Diseases (Regulations) Act,

amended. 4.

1968;".

S. 20A added. 5. The principal Act is amended by adding, after

section twenty, the following section-

Certain

costs of	20A. Where the Chief Inspector certifies
vaccination

payable out	that cattle have been vaccinated, pursuant to
of Fund.	an order or direction given under any other Act, for the purpose of preventing the spread of disease, the Director may cause any costs properly incurred for the purposes of the vaccination to be paid out of the Fund. .