Poultry Industry Act Amendment Act 1979 (Qld)

615 ANNO VICESIMO OCTAVO ELIZABETHAE SECUNDAE REGINAE No. 63 of 1979 An Act to amend the Poultry Industry Act 1946-1975 in certain particulars [ASSENTED TO 18TH DECEMBER, 1979] BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled,. and by the authority of the same, as follows:- 1. Short title and citation . (1) This Act may be cited as the Poultry Industry Act Amendment Act 1979. (2) In this Act the Poultry Industry Act 1946-1975 is referred to as the Principal Act. . (3) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act may be cited as the Poultry Industry Act 1946-1979.

616 Poultry Industry Act Amendment Act 1979, No. 63 2. Amendment of s. 4. Section 4 of the Principal' Act is amended by- (a) omitting the definition " Disease " and substituting the following definition: " Disease "- (a) clostridia) infection (including gangrenous dermatitis, necrotic enteritis, ulcerative enteritis), colibacillosis, erysipelas, fowl cholera, fowl typhoid, haemophilosis (infectious coryza), mycoplasmosis, omphalitis, pasteurellosis, pullorum disease, salmonellosis, spirochaetosis, staphylococcosis, tuberculosis, vibrionic hepatitis ; (b) chlamydiosis (psittacosis, ornithosis); (c) mycosis (including aspergillosis, candidiasis, cryptococcosis, favus, histoplasmosis); (d) Argas persicus (fowl tick) infestation, Echidnophaga gallinacea (stickfast flea) infestation, lice infestation, mite infestation; (e) cestodiasis, nematodiasis (including Ascaridia spp., Capillaria spp., Cheilospirura spp., Dispharynx spp., Gongylonema spp., Heterakis spp., Oxyspirura mansoni (eye worm), Syngamus trachea (gapes)) trematodiasis; (f) coccidiosis, hexamitiasis, histomoniasis, leucocytozoonosis, toxoplasmosis, trichomoniasis; (g) botulism, mycotoxicosis; (h) adenovirus infection (including haemorrhagic enteritis, quail bronchitis), arbovirus infection, avian monocytosis (blue comb), coronavirus infection (infectious bronchitis), herpesvirus infection (including duck enteritis, infectious laryngotracheitis, Marek's disease), inclusion body hepatitis, infectious bursal disease, leucosis/sarcoma virus infection, orthomyxovirus infection (including fowl plague, avian influenza), paramyxovirus infection (including Newcastle disease), picornavirus infection (avian encephalomyelitis), pox virus infection, reovirus infection, reticuloendotheliosis virus infection; and (i) any other disease affecting poultry that is declared by Order in Council to be a disease for the purposes of this Act;"; (b) omitting the definition " Prescribed " and omitting the definition " Regulations " and substituting the following definition:- " " sell "-agree to sell, offer or expose for sale, keep or have in possession for sale, receive, consign, send, forward or deliver for or on sale, authorizing, causing, permitting, suffering or attempting any of such acts or things;". 3. Amendment of s. 10B . Section 10s of the Principal Act is amended by omitting subsection (6) and substituting the following subsection:- " (6) An Egg Marketing Board to which a precept has been directed pursuant to this section shall pay the amount of the precept from its Funds. The payment of such amount to the Minister shall be deemed to be in law the payment of an administrative expense of the Board.".

Poultry Industry Act Amendment Act 1979, No. 63 617 4. Amendment of s. 36. Section 36 of the Principal Act is amended by- (a) numbering the section as subsection (1); (b) inserting at the end thereof the following subsection:- " (2) The power of the Governor in Council to make regulations .includes power to adopt, wholly or in part, in relation to any matter provided for in the regulations any of the standard rules, codes or specifications of - the bodies known as the Standards Association of Australia, the British Standards Institute, the National Biological Standards Laboratory, the Standing Committee on Agriculture or any like body identified in the regulations.".