Health (Meat Inspection and Branding) Amendment Regulations (No. 4) 1991 (WA)

[28 June 1991

1. GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA

2. These regulations shall come into operation on 1 July 1991.

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HEALTH ACT 1911

HEALTH (MEAT INSPECTION AND BRANDING) AMENDMENT

REGULATIONS (No. 4) 1991

Made by His Excellency the Governor in Executive Council.

Citation
1. These regulations may be cited as the Health (Meat Inspection and

Branding) Amendment Regulations (No. 4) 1991.

Commencement

28 June 19911 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 3147

Principal regulations

3. In these regulations the Health (Meat Inspection and Branding) Regulations	1950* are referred to as the principal regulations.
(*Reprinted in the Gazette of 25 August 1988 at pp. 3243-3270. For subsequent amendments to 14 June 1991 see pp. 271-2 of 1990 Index to Legislation of Western Australia and the Gazette of 3 May 1991.1
Regulations IAA amendment
4. Regulation 1AA of the principal regulations is amended—

(a) in the definition of "inspector" by deleting "State." and substituting the following—

State; "; and

(b) by inserting after the definition of "inspector" the following definition- " "rabbit" means a rabbit farmed under the permit issued under regulation 16 of the Agriculture and Related Resources Protec- tion (Declared Animals) Regulations 1985, employing the caged system of rabbit housing. ".

Regulation 2 amended

5. Regulation 2 of the principal regulations is amended—

(a) by deleting "Such brand shall be affixed to each side of a carcass and, in the case of beef and pigs, as indicated on the diagrams shown and as specified hereunder, namely: —" and substituting the following-

" Except in the case of rabbits, the brand shall be affixed to each side of the carcass and, in every case, the brand shall be affixed as illustrated or specified as follows— "; and

(b) by inserting after paragraph (d) the following paragraph-

" (da) In the case of rabbit—

On one side of the neck.

Schedule C amended

6. Schedule C to the principal regulations is amended by deleting Table 1 and

substituting the following table—

a

TABLE 1

Fees payable to Executive Director, Public Health

Piece

Carcass Side or

Quarter

$ $ $

For each cow, bull, heifer or steer	1.25	0.69	0.38
For each calf (under 70 kg)	1.00	0.55	0.30

For each sheep, lamb, goat or deer 0.38 0.21 0.12

For each swine	1.85	0.925	0.46
For each rabbit	0.15	Nil	Nil
For each carton of meat on which no previous charge has been made under this Schedule	88 cents
Dated 25 June 1991. By His Excellency's Command,

L. M. AULD, Clerk of the Council.