FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE ACT 1961 [Note: This Act is "repealed" by Act No. 181 of 1978]
(#DATE 29:10:1966)
- Reprinted as at 29 October 1966 FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE ACT 1961-1966 - TABLE OF PROVISIONS
TABLE
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE ACT 1961-1966
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section
1. Short title
2. Definitions
3. Establishment of Trust Account
4. Payments to Trust Account
5. Purposes of Trust Account
6. Distribution of surplus in Trust Account
7. Compensation
8. Persons to whom compensation payable
9. Claims to be made within two months
10. Compensation not be be paid to convicted person
11. Compensation not to be paid twice
12. Calculation of compensation
13. Recovery of compensation
14. False statements, &c.
15. Operation of the law relating to stock diseases not affected
16. Regulations
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE ACT 1961-1966 - SECT. 1.
Short title.
SECT
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE ACT 1961-1966
An Act to establish a Foot and Mouth Disease Eradication Trust Account in
respect of the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory of
Australia, and for purposes connected therewith.
Short title amended; No. 32, 1918, s. 2.
1. This Act may be cited as the Foot and Mouth Disease Act 1961-1966.*
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE ACT 1961-1966 - SECT. 2.
Definitions.
SECT
Amended by No. 90, 1965, s. 2.
2. In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears-
''foot and mouth disease'' includes vesicular exanthema and vesicular
stomatitis;
''owner'', in relation to an animal or other property that has been
destroyed or an animal that has died, means a person who, or partnership
which, had an interest in the animal or other property at the time of its
destruction or death, but does not include the holder of a mortgage, lien or
charge over the animal or other property who was not in possession at that
time;
''Territory'' means the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern
Territory of Australia;
''the Trust Account'' means the Foot and Mouth Disease Eradication Trust
Account established by this Act.
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE ACT 1961-1966 - SECT. 3.
Establishment of Trust Account.
SECT
3. There shall be a Foot and Mouth Disease Eradication Trust Account, which
shall be a Trust Account for the purposes of section sixty-two A of the Audit
Act 1910-1960.
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE ACT 1961-1966 - SECT. 4.
Payments to Trust Account.
SECT
4. (1) Subject to the next succeeding sub-section, the Treasurer may, from
time to time, pay to the credit of the Trust Account, out of the Consolidated
Revenue Fund, such sums as he determines.
Amended by No. 93, 1966, s. 3.
(2) The Treasurer shall not make a payment under the last preceding
sub-section if the amount standing to the credit of the Trust Account is, or
would, after the payment, be, more than Four hundred thousand dollars.
(3) There shall be paid to the credit of the Trust Account-
(a) any amount paid to the Commonwealth by a State under any arrangement
between the Commonwealth and the States for dealing with outbreaks of foot and
mouth disease in Australia;
(b) moneys received by the Commonwealth from the sale of any goods bought
out of moneys standing to the credit of the Trust Account; and
(c) interest from the investment of moneys standing to the credit of the
Trust Account.
(4) The Consolidated Revenue Fund is appropriated to the extent necessary
for making the payments referred to in this section.
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE ACT 1961-1966 - SECT. 5.
Purposes of Trust Account.
SECT
5. Moneys standing to the credit of the Trust Account may be applied in the
payment or recoupment of-
(a) compensation payable under this Act;
(b) compensation payable under the law of the Northern Territory of
Australia in respect of losses occasioned by foot and mouth disease;
(c) expenses (other than salaries or wages) incurred by the Commonwealth-
(i) in dealing with an outbreak of foot and mouth disease in a
Territory; or
(ii) in connexion with claims for compensation referred to in paragraph
(a) or (b) of this section; or
(d) salaries or wages of persons employed by the Commonwealth specifically
in connexion with an outbreak of foot and mouth disease in a Territory.
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE ACT 1961-1966 - SECT. 6.
Distribution of surplus in Trust Account.
SECT
6. (1) The Treasurer may, at any time, direct, with respect to any moneys
standing to the credit of the Trust Account that are not required for the
purposes of the Trust Account, that those moneys be paid out of the Trust
Account and divided among the Commonwealth and the States in such proportions
as he determines having regard to the contributions made by the Commonwealth
and the States to the Trust Account.
(2) The share of the Commonwealth in any moneys divided in accordance with
the last preceding sub-section shall be paid to the credit of the Consolidated
Revenue Fund.
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE ACT 1961-1966 - SECT. 7.
Compensation.
SECT
7. Subject to this Act, compensation is payable in respect of-
(a) any animal or other property that is destroyed, in accordance with the
law of the Australian Capital Territory relating to diseases in stock, for the
purpose of eradicating or preventing the spread of foot and mouth disease; or
(b) any animal that dies while on land that has, because of the presence or
suspected presence on the land of foot and mouth disease, been declared to be,
and is at the time of the death, an infected area, quarantine area or similar
area for the purposes of the law of the Australian Capital Territory relating
to diseases in stock, being an animal whose death is certified, by a person
authorized by the Minister for the purpose, to have been due to foot and mouth
disease.
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE ACT 1961-1966 - SECT. 8.
Persons to whom compensation payable.
SECT
8. Subject to this Act, compensation payable under this Act in respect of an
animal or other property shall-
(a) where there is only one owner of the animal or other property-be paid
to the owner; or
(b) where there is more than one owner of the animal or other property-be
divided among those owners in accordance with their interests in the animal or
other property at the time of its destruction or death.
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE ACT 1961-1966 - SECT. 9.
Claims to be made within two months.
SECT
9. An owner is not entitled to compensation under this Act in respect of an
animal or other property unless a claim for compensation, in respect of the
animal or other property, is made as prescribed by or on behalf of the owner
within two months after the date of destruction or death of the animal or
other property.
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE ACT 1961-1966 - SECT. 10.
Compensation not to be paid to convicted person.
SECT
10. Where-
(a) a person has, after the commencement of this Act, been convicted of an
offence against the law of the Australian Capital Territory relating to
diseases in stock by reason of an act or omission as a result of which any
animal has been infected, or exposed to the risk of infection, with foot and
mouth disease or any other property has been contaminated, or exposed to the
risk of contamination, with that disease; and
(b) after the commission of that offence, an amount of compensation becomes
payable to that person, or to a partnership of which that person is a member,
in respect of that animal or other property,
the Minister may, by instrument under his hand, direct that the whole, or such
part as the Minister thinks fit, of that amount be not paid.
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE ACT 1961-1966 - SECT. 11.
Compensation not to be paid twice.
SECT
11. Where section seven of this Act applies in relation to any animal or
other property, compensation is not payable in respect of the animal or other
property under the law of the Australian Capital Territory relating to
diseases in stock.
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE ACT 1961-1966 - SECT. 12.
Calculation of compensation.
SECT
12. The compensation payable under this Act in respect of an animal or other
property is an amount equal to the market value of the animal or other
property immediately before its destruction or death or, if, being an animal,
it was, at that time, affected with foot and mouth disease, the market value
of the animal immediately before it became so affected.
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE ACT 1961-1966 - SECT. 13.
Recovery of compensation.
SECT
13. (1) Compensation payable under this Act may be recovered by action
against the Commonwealth in a court of the Australian Capital Territory, being
a court having jurisdiction in actions for the recovery of debts equal to the
amount of compensation claimed.
(2) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to prevent the making or
operation of an agreement between the Commonwealth and an owner claiming
compensation under this Act for submission to arbitration in accordance with
the law of the Australian Capital Territory of the question of the amount of
compensation payable to the owner under this Act.
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE ACT 1961-1966 - SECT. 14.
False statements, &c.
SECT
Amended by No. 93, 1966, s. 3.
14. A person shall not, for the purpose of obtaining pecuniary benefit for
himself or any other person under this Act or the regulations-
(a) make a false or misleading statement, knowing it to be false or
misleading or not believing it to be true; or
(b) do a fraudulent act.
Penalty: Two hundred dollars.
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE ACT 1961-1966 - SECT. 15.
Operation of the law relating to stock diseases not affected.
SECT
15. Except as provided in section eleven of this Act, nothing in this Act or
the regulations shall be taken to affect the operation of the law of the
Australian Capital Territory relating to diseases in stock.
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE ACT 1961-1966 - SECT. 16.
Regulations.
SECT
Amended by No. 93, 1966, s. 3.
16. The Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this
Act, prescribing all matters which by this Act are required or permitted to be
prescribed, or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying
out or giving effect to this Act and, in particular, prescribing penalties not
exceeding a fine of One hundred dollars for offences against the regulations.
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FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE ACT 1961-1966 - NOTE
NOTE
1. The Foot and Mouth Disease Act 1961-1966 comprises the Foot and Mouth
Disease Act 1961 as amended by the other Acts specified in the following
table:
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Number Date of
Act and year Date of
Assent commencement
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Foot and Mouth Disease
Act 1961 No. 44, 1961 30 Aug 1961 27 Sept 1961
Foot and Mouth Disease
Act 1965 No. 90, 1965 4 Dec 1965 1 Jan 1966
Statute Law Revision
(Decimal Currency) Act
1966 No. 93, 1966 29 Oct 1966 1 Dec 1966
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