Quarantine (Animals) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1944. No 184.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE QUARANTINE ACT 1908-1924.*

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Quarantine Act 1908-1934.

Dated this thirtieth day of December, 1944.

DUGAN

Administrator.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Health.

 

Amendments of the Quarantine (Animals) Regulations.

Sheep from Canada and the United States of America.

1. Regulation 20 of the Quarantine (Animals) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting the words “and goats”; and

(b) by omitting from sub-paragraph (iv) of paragraph (b) the words “or goats”.

Used and second-hand bags.

2. Regulation 68 of the Quarantine (Animals) Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (b) the words “, United States of America or Japan” and inserting in their stead the words “or the United States of America”.

Straw packing.

3. Regulation 69 of the Quarantine (Animals) Regulations is amended by omitting the words “, United States of America or Japan” and inserting in their stead the words “or the United States of America”.

4. Regulation 74 of the Quarantine (Animals) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Hides and skins from New Zealand, Fiji, Norfolk Island, Western Samoa, New Caledonia, Tonga or the New Hebrides.

“74. It shall not be necessary for hides and skins from New Zealand, Fiji, Norfolk Island, Western Samoa, Now Caledonia, Tonga or the New Hebrides to be disinfected as provided by regulation 71 of those

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1944.

  Statutory Rules 1935, No. 71, as amended by Statutory Rules 1936, No. 37; 1937, No. 69; 1938, No. 95; 1939, No. 139; 1941, No. 83; and 1942, No. 61.

6939.—Price 3d. 9/13.11.1944.

Regulations, if there has been delivered to the Chief Quarantine Officer a declaration made by the owner or consignor before a magistrate stating—

(a)that the hides and skins were not derived from any animal which had died by any means other than slaughter; and

(b)in the case of cattle and deer hides—that the hides have been thoroughly salted,

and bearing an endorsement by a Government veterinary surgeon (or where there is no Government veterinary surgeon in the country of origin, by a Government medical officer) that he has made due inquiry and has no reason to doubt the truth of the declaration.”.

Fertilizer and stock food of animal origin.

5. Regulation 85 of the Quarantine (Animals) Regulations is amended by omitting the words “fish refuse” and inserting in their stead the words “fertilizer and stock food derived from fish”.

Second Schedule.

6. The Second Schedule to the Quarantine (Animals) Regulations is amended by omitting the words “Sheep and goats from Great Britain, Canada or the United States of America” and inserting in their stead the words “Sheep from Great Britain, Canada or the United States of America and goats from Great Britain”.

 

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.