Pig Industry Compensation Act Amendment Act 1963 (WA)

No. 30.] Pig Industry Compensation. [1963.

PIG INDUSTRY COMPENSATION.

12° Elizabeth II., No. XXX.

No. 30 of 1963.

AN ACT to amend the Pig Industry Compensation

Act, 1942-1961.

[Assented to 13th November, 1963.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Short title

and citation. 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Pig Industry

Compensation Act Amendment Act, 1963.

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Reprinted	(2) In this Act the Pig Industry Compensation
Acts

approved for	Act, 1942-1961, is referred to as the principal Act.
reprint 30th
January,

1962. (3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the Pig Industry Compensation Act,

1942-1963.

1963.] Pig Industry Compensation. [No. 30.

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2. Section three of the principal Act is amended

amended.

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(a)	by deleting the interpretation, "Prescribed"	of 1918.
and
(b)	by deleting the interpretation, "Regula- tions".

3. Section seven of the principal Act is amended.

amended

(a) by substituting for subsection (1) the following subsection

(1) Subject to this Act, the amount of compensation payable in respect of a pig

(a)	destroyed because it is suffering from or suspected of suffering from disease; or
(b)	that is proved to the satisfac- tion of the Chief Veterinary Surgeon or an approved person to have died of swine fever, swine erysipelas or paratyphoid

shall be the market value of the pig, less

the prescribed deductions. ;

(b) by substituting for subsection (2) the following subsection

(2) Provided that in no case shall the market value of any pig for the purpose of this Act be deemed to be more than forty pounds.