Stock Diseases Act Amendment Act 1954 (WA)

1954.] Stock Diseases. [No. 41.

STOCK DISEASES.

3° Elizabeth II., No. XLI.

No. 41 of 1954.

AN ACT to amend The Stock Diseases Act, 1895.

[Assented to 8th December, 1954.]

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:—

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

Diseases Act Amendment Act, 1954.	Short title
and citation.

(2) In this Act The Stock Diseases Act, 1895,

Act 59 Victories No. 34 as amended by Act No.

12 of 1906,

is referred to as the principal Act.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the Stock Diseases Act, 1895-1954.

No. 41.] Stock Disease. [1954,

S. 6

amended. 2. Subsection (1) of section six of the principal Act is amended by adding after paragraph (9) the following paragraphs:

(9a) In relation to poultry, for regulating the licensing, establishment and carrying on of a hatchery, and breeding flock of poultry, for prescribing the fees for and the terms and conditions of the licensing, establish- ment and carrying on of the hatchery, and breeding flock of poultry and regulating and prohibiting the disposal, treatment, mark- ing, classification, sale and delivery of eggs for hatching and chickens.

(9b) Prescribing forms and fees and other mat- ters and things which by this Act are contemplated, required or permitted to be prescribed.