Quarantine Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1925. No. 134.

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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, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this fifth day of August, 1925.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

NEVILLE HOWSE,

Minister for Health.

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Amendment of Quarantine Regulations 1922.

The Quarantine Regulations 1922 (Statutory Rules No. 18 of 1923) are amended—

(1) By inserting the following regulation after regulation 78 (C1):—

78. (C2): In the case of any horse from France:—

1. A declaration from the owner certifying—

(a) that the animal has been free from disease during the six months next preceding shipment;

(b)that it has not been in contact with any animal suffering from disease during the six months next preceding shipment;

(c) that it has not otherwise than as required under (C2) 3 been tested with mallein during the 30 days next preceding shipment;

(d)that it has not been, during the twelve months next preceding, in any Province or locality in which Dourine (Maladie du Coit) or Epizootic Lymphangitis is declared or known to exist or within 25 kilometres of any case of Epizootic Lymphangitis.

2. A certificate from a Government veterinary surgeon to the effect that Dourine (Maladie du Coit) or Epizootic Lymphangitis neither is nor, during the twelve months next preceding the shipment of the animal, has been declared or known to exist in, or within 25 kilometres of, the Province or locality from which the animal is declared by the owner to have been exported or in which it is declared to have been during the twelve months next preceding shipment.

C.11245.—Price 3d.

 

3. A mallein test certificate by a Government veterinary surgeon. The certificate shall inter alia state the date on which the test was applied.

4. A certificate of general health from a Government veterinary surgeon at the port of shipment, who shall, unless he himself has applied the mallein test, also endorse the mallein test certificate to the effect that, after due inquiry, he has no reason to doubt its correctness.

5. A certificate of general health from an approved veterinary surgeon in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

(2) By inserting the following words after the seventh line of regulation 80a (1):—

“Horses from France—42 days”

(3) By the addition of the following words after the word “port” in regulation 62 (c):—

“or on to or into any vessel lying alongside except such vessels as are definitely employed for the removal and disposal of such refuse”.

(4) By inserting the following regulation after regulation 127—

127a. No person shall import any timber (whether logs or sawn timber) unless he has given notice to the Quarantine Officer at the port of landing in accordance with the following form which shall be printed on blue paper:—

Form 1a.

Commonwealth of Australia.

Quarantine Act 1908-1924.

TIMBER.

Importer’s Notice.

To the Quarantine Officer for Plants, Port of

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Ihereby give you notice that I desire to remove from the vessel (give name)berthed, or to be berthed at (state berthing place) the following timber, as per schedule below:—

Quantity of timber.

Brands or marks.

Country of origin.

Port of shipment.

Variety or varieties of timber.

Dressed or undressed.

Sawn or unsawn.

Seasoned or unseasoned.

I declare that, to the best of my knowledge and belief the above particulars are true and correct and that no other timber subject to quarantine of which I am the consignee or importer or agent has arrived by the said vessel.

Signature—

Witness to signature—

 

Printed and Published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by H. J. Green, Government Printer for the State of Victoria.