STATUTORY RULES.
1942. No. 262.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939–1940.*
I,
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the
advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations
under the National Security Act 1939–1940.
Dated
this tenth day of June 1942.
(SGD.) GOWRIE.
Governor-General.
By
His Excellency’s Command,
for
and on behalf of the Minister of State
for
Defence.
National
Security (Control of Animal Diseases) Regulations.
Citation.
1. These
Regulations may be cited as the National Security (Control of Animal Diseases)
Regulations.
Administration.
2. These Regulations shall
be administered by the Minister of State for Health.
Interpretation.
3. Expressions used in
these Regulations shall have the same meanings as in the Quarantine Act 1908–1924.
Food
refuse to be treated before use.
4. A person shall not use
for feeding to animals any food refuse which has been removed from any naval,
military or air force encampment or establishment unless the refuse has been
treated by boiling or by some other process of heating approved by a Chief Quarantine
Officer.
Precautions
to be observed with respect to food refuse.
5. The owner of any animal
to which any such food refuse is to be fed shall—
(a) retain the refuse in containers in a
place to which animals have not access until the refuse has been treated as
required by the last preceding regulation;
(b) cleanse all containers and vehicles
in his possession used for collecting or retaining the refuse; and
(c) dispose of all residue remaining
after the cleansing treatment.
*
Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on ,
1942.
3617.—25/18.5.1942.—Price
3d.
Persons
removing food refuse to give notice.
6. Any person who undertakes to
remove, or removes, food refuse from any naval, military or air force
encampment or establishment shall forthwith notify a Chief Quarantine Officer
and, if any such refuse is to be used for the purpose of feeding to animals, he
shall furnish to the Chief Quarantine Officer particulars of the apparatus to
be used for the treatment of the refuse.
Power
to enter premises.
7. Any quarantine officer
or other person authorized in that behalf by a Chief Quarantine Officer shall
have power to enter any premises and to make inspections for the purpose of
ascertaining whether the provisions of these Regulations are being complied with.
Directions
as to manner of compliance with Regulations.
8. A quarantine officer or
person authorized under the last preceding regulation may give directions as to
the manner in which the provisions of regulations 4, 5 and 6 of these
Regulations shall be complied with and a person shall comply with all such directions
as are so given to him.
Destruction
of animals on overseas vessels.
9.—(1.) The master of any
oversea vessel which enters any port in Australia shall, if so required by a
quarantine officer, destroy any cattle, sheep, goats, other ruminants, swine,
fowls, ducks, turkeys, geese or Guinea fowls thereon unless the animals may
lawfully be imported into Australia and, if such requirement is not carried out
forthwith, a quarantine officer may destroy the animals.
(2.) The master of any vessel on
which any animal has been destroyed in accordance with the provisions of the
last preceding sub-regulation shall—
(a) dispose of the carcass, offal, hide,
skin and manure of the animal in accordance with the directions of a quarantine
officer;
(b) cleanse and disinfect the stalls,
pens, or crates occupied by the animal in a manner approved by a quarantine
officer.
Quarantine
officer may destroy uncontrolled animals.
10. A
quarantine officer may destroy any dog, cat or undomesticated animal which is
neither intended nor permitted to be imported into Australia and which is on an
oversea vessel which enters a port in Australia, if the animal is not
controlled on the vessel in a manner approved by a Chief Quarantine Officer, or
if the master of the vessel refuses to enter into a bond as required by
regulation 59 of the Quarantine (Animals) Regulations.
Master
of vessel to render assistance.
11. The
master of an oversea vessel shall render all reasonable assistance to a
quarantine officer in the carrying out of his duties under either of the last
two preceding regulations.
By
Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth
Government Printer, Canberra.