Stock (Brands and Movement) Act Amendment Act 1979 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

STOCK (BRANDS AND

MOVEMENT).

No. 30 of 1979.

AN ACT to amend the Stock (Brands and

Movement) Act, 1970-1978.

[Assented to 3rd October, 1979.]

RE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent

Majesty, by and with the advice and consent

of the Legislative Council and the Legislative

Assembly of Western Australia, in this present

Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the

same, as follows:—

Short title

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Stock (Brands and

and Movement) Act Amendment Act, 1979. citation.

(2) In this Act the Stock (Brands and Movement)	Reprinted
12th May.

Act, 1970-1978 is referred to as the principal Act.	amended by
1977 and
Act No. 42

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may of 1979

be cited as the Stock (Brands and Movement) Act

1970-1979.

No. 30.] Stock (Brands and Movement). [1979.

Commence-

ment. 2. This Act shall come into operation on a date

to be fixed by proclamation.

Section 5

amended. 3. Section 5 of the principal Act is amended as

to the definition "Breed Society" by adding after the

word "breed" in line two the words "or strain".

Section 30	4.	Section 30 of the principal Act is amended
amended.

(a)	as to subsection (1), by deleting the passage "subsection (4) of" in line one; and
(b)	by adding a subsection to stand as sub- section (5) as follows

(5) The proprietor of any stud horse may, within such time as is specified in this section for the branding of horses, mark the horse in the prescribed manner with his Breed Society mark, and thereupon no further branding of the horse is required by this Act. .