Quarantine (Animals) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1971 No.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE QUARANTINE ACT 1908-1969.*

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 1908-1969.

Dated this seventeenth day of June, 1971.

Paul Hasluck

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Health.

 

Amendments of the Quarantine (Animals) Regulations

Horses, asses and mules from New Zealand.

1. Regulation 10 of the Quarantine (Animals) Regulations is amended by inserting in sub-regulation (1.), after the words “New Zealand” (first occurring), the words “, other than horses, asses and mules in relation to which the next succeeding regulation applies,”.

2. After regulation 10 of the Quarantine (Animals) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Horses, asses and mules from Great Britain, Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland transshipped in New Zealand.

“10a.—(1.) This regulation applies in relation to a horse, ass or mule transported from New Zealand to Australia by ship, being a horse, ass or mule that—

(a)was transported to New Zealand by ship from Great Britain, Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland;

(b) was landed in New Zealand not more than six weeks before the date of shipment for Australia; and

(c) remained in New Zealand during the whole of the period between the date of that landing and the date of shipment for Australia.

“(2.) The next succeeding regulation applies in relation to a horse, ass or mule in relation to which this regulation applies as if it were a horse, ass or mule from the country of origin of the animal and, for the purposes of the application of that regulation in relation to such an animal—

(a)a reference in that regulation to shipment shall be read as a reference to shipment in the country of origin of the animal;

(b) a reference in that regulation to a veterinary surgeon shall be read as a reference to a veterinary surgeon in the country of origin of the animal; and

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1971.

  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; 1942, No. 61; 1944, No. 184; 1946, No. 17; 1950, No. 95; 1953, No. 15; 1955, No. 10; 1956, Nos. 36, 65 and 111; 1958, Nos. 35 and 36; 1959, Nos. 72 and 87; 1960, No. 85; 1961, No. 23;1966, Nos. 14, 109, 117 and 155; and 1969, No. 98.

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(c) the reference in paragraph (d)of that regulation to the country from which the animal is exported shall be read as a reference to the country of origin of the animal.

“(3.) In the last preceding sub-regulation, ‘the country of origin’, in relation to an animal, means the country, being Great Britain, Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland, as the case may be, from which the animal was transported to New Zealand by ship.”.

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