Stock Diseases Act 1923 Stock Diseases (General) Amendment (Ruminant Tissue) Regulation 1997 (1997-173) [GG No 47 of 2.5.1997, p 2466] (NSW)

1997 No 173

New South Wales

Stock Diseases (General) Amendment

(Ruminant Tissue) Regulation 1997

under the

Stock Diseases Act 1923

His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Stock Diseases Act 1923.

RICHARD AMERY, M.P.,

Minister for Agriculture

Explanatory note

The object of this Regulation is to prescribe ruminant tissue as a prohibited substance under section 20FB of the Stock Diseases Act 1923 in relation to ruminant animals. As a result of the prescription, it will be an offence to feed ruminant tissue to ruminant animals. The Regulation also rewrites, in simpler form, an existing prescription in relation to swine.

This Regulation gives effect to a decision of the Agricultural Resource Management Council of Australia and New Zealand, a body representing Ministers of the Crown of the various States and Territories, the Commonwealth and New Zealand.

This Regulation is made under the Stock Diseases Act 1923, including section 23 (the general regulation making power) and section 20FB.

Published in Gazette No 47 of 2 May 1997, page 2466 Page 1

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Clause 1 Stock Diseases (General) Amendment (Ruminant Tissue) Regulation 1997

Stock Diseases (General) Amendment (Ruminant

Tissue) Regulation 1997

1 Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Stock Diseases (General) Amendment

(Ruminant Tissue) Regulation 1997.

2 Commencement

This Regulation commences on 2 May 1997.

3 Amendment of Stock Diseases (General) Regulation 1992

The Stock Diseases (General) Regulation 1992 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

4 Notes

The explanatory note does not form part of this Regulation.

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Schedule 1	Amendments

(Clause 3 )

Clauses 34A and 35

Omit clause 35. Insert instead:

34A Feeding of ruminant tissue to ruminants: section 20FB

(1)	For the purposes of section 20FB of the Act, ruminant tissue is prescribed as a prohibited substance in relation to ruminant animals.
(2)	For the purposes of section 20FB (3) of the Act, all ruminant animals are prescribed in relation to the substances prescribed by subclause (1) in circumstances in which those substances are fed to them for a purpose, and in a manner, approved by the Chief, Division of Animal Industries.
(3)	In this clause:
ruminant animal means an animal that has a rumen, and
includes an animal belonging to any of the following classes of animal, namely, cattle, sheep, goats and deer.
ruminant tissue means tissue or blood (other than
tallow) derived from the carcass of a ruminant animal, and includes any substance produced from or containing any such tissue or blood.

35 Feeding of substances to swine: section 20FB

(1)

For the purposes of section 20FB of the Act, the following substances are prescribed as prohibited substances in relation to swine:

(a)	any tissue or blood derived from the carcass of any animal or bird,
(b)	the eggs or excreta of any animal or bird,

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(c)

any substance produced from or containing a

substance referred to in paragraph (a) or (b), other
than:

(i)	a stock food or medicine registered or approved under an Act, or
(ii)	a substance that has been processed at premises, and in a manner, approved by the Chief, Division of Animal Industries,

(d)

any household or commercial waste, foodstuffs, garbage or other food refuse, other than bakery, fruit or vegetable waste,

(e)

any household or commercial waste, foodstuffs, garbage or other food refuse that has been kept in, and is fed to swine from, a receptacle that contains or has contained a substance included in paragraph (a), (b) or (c).

(2) For the purposes of section 20FB (3) of the Act, feral pigs are prescribed in relation to the substances prescribed by subclause (1) (1) in circumstances in which those substances are fed to them for the purpose of suppressing or controlling their numbers, but only if those substances are fed to them in a manner approved by the Chief, Division of Animal Industries.