Quarantine Regulations 1909 (Amendment) (Provisional) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1910. No. 78.

PROVISIONAL REGULATION UNDER THE QUARANTINE ACT 1908.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby certify that, on account of urgency, the following Regulation under the Quarantine Act should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulation to come into operation forthwith as a Provisional Regulation.

Dated this 16th day of August, One thousand nine hundred and ten.

DUDLEY,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

FRANK G. TUDOR,

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

 

The Quarantine Regulations 1909 (Statutory Rules 1909, No. 73) are amended by inserting therein, after Regulation 60, the following Regulation:—

60a. (1) Fees in accordance with the following scale shall be charged for the veterinary examination and treatment, as prescribed, of animals in quarantine: —

(i.) Horses, Asses, Mules, and Cattle.

For the prescribed examinations (including the Mallein test or the Tuberculin test) of—

(a) A single animal, or the first animal in any consignment—£2 2s.

(b) Each additional animal in any consignment of animals of the same kind—£1 1s.

(ii.) Sheep, Swine, Goats, Dogs, and Cats.

For the prescribed examinations of—

(a) A single animal, or the first animal in any consignment—£1 1s.

(b) Each additional animal in any consignment of animals of the same kind—2s. 6d.

(iii.) Sheep.

The treatment by Dipping as prescribed—

(a) For a single animal—£1 1s.

(b) For a consignment of two to twenty animals—£2 2s.

(c) For each animal above twenty up to forty in one consignment—2s.

(d) For each animal above forty up to one hundred in one consignment—1s.

(e) For each animal above one hundred in one consignment—6d.

C.11974.—Price 3d.

(iv.) Wild or Undomesticated Animals for Circus or Menagerie Purposes.

For the prescribed examinations—

Each animal, 10s. 6d.

(2) The said fees shall be independent of any charges for veterinary treatment on account of any intercurrent disease of any animal while in quarantine. The charges for such treatment by a Quarantine Officer shall not exceed those ordinarily made by the veterinary profession in similar cases.

The owner or importer of any animal in quarantine may, on condition that he accepts all responsibility, arrange with the Chief Quarantine Officer for the said animal to be treated by a private veterinary practitioner.

 

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