Stock Diseases Act Amendment Act 1966 (WA)

No. 26.] Stock Diseases. [1966.

STOCK DISEASES.

No. 26 of 1966.

AN ACT to amend the Stock Diseases Act, 1895-1960.

[Assented to 27th October, 1966.]

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

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

Diseases Act Amendment Act, 1966.

Reprinted in

Vol. 15 of the	(2) In this Act the Stock Diseases Act, 1895-1960,
Reprinted

Acts.

is referred to as the principal Act.

Approved

for Reprint

8th August,

1961.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the Stock Diseases Act, 1895-1966.

1966.] Stock Diseases. [No. 26.

2.    Section four of the principal Act is amended amended.

by adding after the interpretation, "Owner.", the

following interpretation-

"Poultry."—Any poultry, poultry products, the carcase or any portion of the carcase of any poultry, newly hatched chickens, or the eggs of any poultry for hatching purposes or for food purposes: .

3. Section five of the principal Act is amended emended.

by substituting for the words, "five hundred pounds" in the last two lines of subsection (3), the words, "one thousand dollars".

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

(a)	by substituting for the words, "one hundred pounds" in lines one and two of paragraph (9c) of subsection (1), the words, "two hundred dollars"; and
(b)	by substituting for the words, "Five hundred pounds" in the last line of sub- section (2), the words, "One thousand dollars".

5. Section eighteen of the principal Act is S. 18 amended.

amended by substituting for the words, "One hundred pounds" in the last two lines, the words, "Two hundred dollars".

6. Section twenty of the principal Act is amended9 s' ended.

by substituting for the words, "Two hundred

pounds" in lines thirty-one and thirty-two, the

words, "Four hundred dollars".