Imported Stock Act 1876 Amendment Act 1877 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA,

ANNO QUADRAGESIMO PRIIVIO

VICTORIA' REGINA].

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No. IV.

AN ACT to amend " The Imported Stock Act, 1876."

[ Assented to, 2nd August, 1877. ]

HEREAS the third section of " The Imported Stock Act,

1876," has been found difficult to work, owing to the fact

that there are so few duly qualified veterinary surgeons in the

Colony; and whereas it has been deemed expedient to exclude from the operation of that Act stock imported from the Australasian Colonies, and from New Zealand; Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Western Australia and its Dependencies, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:—

1 THIS Act may be cited for all purposes as " The Imported Short Title.

Stock Act, 1876, Amendment Act, 1877."

hereby repealed, and the following provision shall take effect in lieu Imported Stock Act, 1876. 2 THE third section of the said Act shall be and the same is Amendment of sec. S of

thereof as if it formed the third section of the said Act, that is to say :—" No stock shall be imported into the Colony unless accom-

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" panied by a certificate from a duly qualified veterinary surgeon,

"who shall be approved of by some person authorised in that behalf "by the Governor, that the stock when placed on board the vessel " conveying them were in a sound and healthy condition, entirely "free from any contagious or infectious disease, or any indications " of it, or, in the absence of such certificate, until such stock shall "have performed quarantine as hereinafter provided, and shall be " certified by some person in the Colony duly appointed in that " behalf by the Governor to be entirely free from any contagious or " infectious disease, or any indication thereof.

3 THE provisions of The Imported Stock Act, 1876," shall

not be taken or deemed to apply to stock imported from the Australasian Colonies, or New Zealand, nor to fodder or fittings imported therefrom.

In the name and on behalf of the Queen I hereby assent to

this Act.

WILLIAM C. F. ROBINSON, Governor.

By Authority: RICHARD PETHER, Government Printer, Perth.