Dairy Cattle Improvement Act Amendment Act 1932 (WA)

3932.1 Dairy Cattle Improvement. [No. 18.

DAIRY CATTLE IMPROVEMENT.

23° GEO. V., No. XVIII.

No. 18 of 1932.

AN ACT to amend the Dairy Cattle Improvement Act,

1922.

[Assented to 6th December, 1932.]

B E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, byCouncil and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, inand with the advice and consent of the Legislative

this presenti Parliament assembled, and by the authority of

the same, as follows:—

1.    This Act may be cited as the Dairy Cattle Improve- Short flue.

anent Act Amendment Act, 1932, and shall be read as one with the Dairy Cattle Improvement Act, 1922 (No. 36 of

7922), hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.

sorting after the definition of "owner" a definition, as fol- s. 3. 2. Section three of the principal Act is amended by in- Amendment of

lows:—

"Pure-bred bull" means a bull whose parents are of the same breed, and who are registered in their breed stud book.

3. Section six of the principal Act is repealed and a sec-

Amendment of

s. 6.

tion is inserted in lieu thereof, as follows:-

6. (1.) For the purpose of registration, bulls shall	Method of regis-
tration.

be classified as	See ibid. es. 7.11.
(a) pure-bred bulls; and

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(b) grade bulls,

according as they are pure-bred bulls or bulls which are

not pure-bred.

(2.) Registration of pure-bred bulls shall be required only once, and shall continue during- the life of the pure- bred bull so registered.

The registration shall be effected in the prescribed manner, at the Department of Agriculture, in Perth, on payment of a fee of ten shillings; and a certificate of registration in the prescribed form shall be issued to the owner of the bull.

(3.) Registration of grade bulls shall be effected an- nually in the prescribed manner, at the Department of Agriculture, in Perth, on payment of a fee of five shil- lings; and a certificate of registration in the prescribed form shall be issued to the owner of the bull.

(4.)

On proof of the loss of any certi ficate of regis-

tration, and payment of a fee of two shillings and six-

pence, a duplicate certificate may be issued.

Amendment of 4. Section seven of the principal Act is amended, as fol-

a. 7. Mws

(a) by inserting- after the word "registration," in line

one, the words "of a grade bull";

(b)

by inserting after the word "every," in line one, of

the proviso to the said section the word "such."

Amendment of	5. Section eleven of the principal Act is amended by de-
s. 11.

leting all the words in lines one, two, and three of subsection

one and inserting in lieu thereof words, as follows:

(1) Registration of any bull in either class of bulls may be refused if, in the opinion of the superintendent of dairying appointed for the purposes of this Act, the bull is below a reasonable standard.

Citation of princi-	6. The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited
pal Act as

amended. as the Dairy Cattle Improvement Act, 1922-1932.