Rural Lands Protection (General) Amendment (Transport of Sheep) Regulation 2003 (NSW)

2003 No 491

New South Wales

Rural Lands Protection (General) Amendment (Transport of Sheep) Regulation 2003

under the

Rural Lands Protection Act 1998

Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Rural Lands Protection Act 1998.

IAN MACDONALD, M.L.C.,

Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries

Explanatory note

Part 10A of the Rural Lands Protection Act 1998 imposes obligations on an owner of stock or person in charge of a vehicle transporting stock to be in possession of certain documentation (a transported stock statement) relating to the stock. The statement must contain specified stock transportation particulars and be in a form approved by the Stock Transportation Accreditation Committee or the Director-General of the Department of Agriculture.The object of this Regulation is to exempt the owners of sheep and persons in charge of vehicles transporting sheep by road from the requirement to include certain of those transportation particulars in the statement. This will have the effect of enabling approval of the use of National Vendor Declarations (which identify the owner of sheep being transported and make certain disease declarations with regard to sheep) as transported stock statements.

This Regulation is made under the Rural Lands Protection Act 1998, including sections

243 (the general regulation-making power) and 244.

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Clause 1	Regulation 2003

Rural Lands Protection (General) Amendment

(Transport of Sheep) Regulation 2003

under the

Rural Lands Protection Act 1998

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Rural Lands Protection (General)
Amendment (Transport of Sheep) Regulation 2003.

2 Amendment of Rural Lands Protection (General) Regulation 2001

The Rural Lands Protection (General) Regulation 2001 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

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Regulation 2003
Amendment	Schedule 1
Schedule 1 Amendment

(Clause 2)

Clause 54C

Insert after clause 54B:

54C

Exemption relating to restrictions on the transport of sheep by
vehicle on a road

(1)

An owner of sheep, or person in charge of a vehicle in which sheep are being transported, is exempt from the operation of sections 140B and 140C of the Act to the extent that those provisions require a transported stock statement completed, copied, provided or possessed by the person to contain stock transportation particulars in relation to the sheep of a kind referred to in section 140B (1) (f) and (g).

(2)

This clause ceases to have effect 2 years after the day on which it commences.

BY AUTHORITY

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