Quarantine (Animals) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1939. No. 139.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE QUARANTINE ACT 1908-1924.*

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 Quarantine Act 1908-1924.

Dated this second day of November, 1939.

(SGD.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

FRED H. STEWART

Minister of State for Health.

 

Amendments of the Quarantine (Animals) Regulations.

General amendments.

1. The Quarantine (Animals) Regulations are amended by omitting from regulations 11, 16, 19, 22, 24, 26, 30, 34, 65, 66 and 68, and from the Second Schedule, the words “the Irish Free State” (wherever occurring) and inserting in their stead the word “Eire”.

Definitions.

2. Regulation 4 of the Quarantine (Animals) Regulations is amended by inserting in sub-regulation (1.), after the definition of “constable”, the following definition:—

“‘England’ includes Wales and Monmouthshire;”.

Cattle from New Zealand.

3. Regulation 15 of the Quarantine (Animals) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following paragraph:—

“; and (d) a certificate by an approved veterinary surgeon that a blood sample collected by him during the period of fourteen days next preceding the date of shipment, and submitted to the agglutination test for Brucellosis at a laboratory, proved negative.”.

Cattle from Great Britain, Northern Ireland, Eire and the Channel Islands.

4. Regulation 16 of the Quarantine (Animals) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (a) the word “and”;

(b) by adding at the end of paragraph (a) the following sub-paragraph:—

“; and (iv) that it has been subjected to a blood test for Brucellosis, in the case of an animal shipped from England, during the period of fourteen days next preceding the date of entering the quarantine station, or, in the case of an animal shipped from any country specified in sub-paragraph (iv) of paragraph (c) of this regulation, during the period of fourteen days next preceding the date of shipment;”; and

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1939.

  Statutory Rules 1935, No. 71, as amended by Statutory Rules 1936, No. 37; 1937, No. 69 and 1938, No. 95.

 

(c) by adding at the end of paragraph (b) the following words:—

“, and that a blood sample collected by him, in the case of an animal shipped from England, during the period of fourteen days next preceding the date of the animal entering the quarantine station, or, in the case of an animal shipped from any country specified in sub-paragraph (iv) of paragraph (c) of this regulation, during the period of fourteen days next preceding the date of shipment, and submitted to the agglutination test for Brucellosis at a laboratory, proved negative;”.

Cattle from Canada or the United States of America.

5. Regulation 17 of the Quarantine (Animals) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-paragraph (iii) of paragraph (a) the word “and” (last occurring);

(b) by adding at the end of paragraph (a) the following sub-paragraph :—

“; and (v) that it has been subjected to a blood test for Brucellosis during the period of fourteen days next preceding the date of shipment;” and

(c) by adding at the end of paragraph (b) the following words:—

“, and that a blood sample collected by him during the period of fourteen days next preceding the date of shipment, and submitted to the agglutination test for Brucellosis at a laboratory, proved negative;”.

Poultry from Great Britain, Northern Ireland, Eire and the Channel Islands.

6. Regulation 26 of the Quarantine (Animals) Regulations is amended by inserting after the word “turkeys” (first occurring) the word “, geese”.

7. Regulation 27 of the Quarantine (Animals) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Birds other than poultry.

“27. Birds (other than fowls, ducks, turkeys, geese and Guinea fowls) shall not be landed unless the following documents have been produced to the Chief Quarantine Officer:—

(a) a declaration by the owner or consignor made in the country from which the birds are exported and, if that country is not within the United Kingdom and is not a British possession, made before a British Consul or British Official Resident, stating—

(i) that the birds were born or were captured in the country from which they are exported;

(ii) that they are free from disease, and while in his possession have not been in contact with any birds (including poultry) suffering from disease; and

(iii) in the case of budgerigars (love birds) from Great Britain and New Zealand, that they were born in captivity; and

 

(b) a certificate by a Government veterinary surgeon at the port of shipment certifying—

(i) that on examination the birds have been found free from disease;

(ii) that the disease known as fowl pest in any of its varieties is not known to exist in the country from which the birds are exported; and

(iii) that he has no reason to doubt the truth of the declaration referred to in paragraph (a) of this regulation.”.

Removal of hides and skins to tannery.

8. Regulation 75 of the Quarantine (Animals) Regulations is amended by inserting in sub-regulation (1.), after the word “and” (second occurring), the words “hides and”.

Furred skins.

9. Regulation 76 of the Quarantine (Animals) Regulations is amended by inserting in sub-regulation (1.), after the word “country”, the words “(other than furred skins from New Zealand, Fiji, Norfolk Island, Western Samoa, New Caledonia, Tonga or the New Hebrides)”.

Commencement of regulations 6 and 7.

10. Regulations 6 and 7 of these Regulations shall come into operation on the first day of January, 1940.

 

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