Quarantine Regulations 1911 (Amendment) (Provisional) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1912. No. 185.

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS 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 Regulations under the Quarantine Act 1908 should come into operation forthwith as Provisional Regulations.

Dated this 11th day of September, One thousand nine hundred and twelve.

DENMAN,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

FRANK G. TUDOR,

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

  

Regulation No. 85 of the Quarantine Regulations 1911 (Statutory Rules No. 121, of 1911), is hereby repealed, and the following Regulation is made in lieu thereof:—

85. (1) The Master of any vessel on which there is any dog or other animal belonging to the vessel or to any officer or member of the crew shall, immediately on arrival of the vessel at any Australian port, give notice to the Chief Quarantine Officer in the following form:—

I hereby inform you that I have on board my ship……. (give name)……..the following animals…………..(give kind and number)…………..to be kept on board while the vessel is in an Australian port.

(2) Ships’ dogs and other ships’ animals shall be kept on board during the whole of the time the ship is in port. All ships’ dogs shall be muzzled and held during such time in such a manner as to prevent contact with other dogs or animals, and as shall be approved by the Chief Quarantine Officer, under a bond of £50 by the Master of the vessel.

 

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