Commonwealth of Australia
Export Control Act 1982
Export Control (Orders) Regulations
Livestock Export (Merino) Orders
(Amendment)
No. 2 of 1994
I, ROBERT LINDSAY COLLINS, Minister for Primary Industries and Energy, make the following Orders under the Export Control (Orders) Regulations.
Dated 6 Dec 1994.
Robert Lindsay Collins
Minister for Primary Industries and Energy
1. Amendment
1.1 The Livestock Export (Merino) Orders are amended as set out in these Regulations.
[NOTE: These Orders commence on gazettal: see Acts Interpretation Act 1901, ss.46 and 48.]
2. Order 4 (Interpretation)
2.1 Suborder 4.1:
Omit “Orders—”, substitute “Orders, unless the contrary intention appears:”.
2 Livestock Export (Merino) Orders No. 2 of 1994
2.2 Suborder 4.1 (definition of “consignment”)
Omit the definition, substitute:
“‘consignment’ means a consignment or intended consignment of one or more merinos to one export destination by one exporter.”.
3. Order 5 (Export of merino rams, merino reproductive material and merino ewes, ova and embryos prohibited)
3.1 Suborder 5.2:
Omit the suborder, substitute:
“5.2 The export, except to New Zealand, or for a scientific research project, of a merino or of reproductive material is prohibited unless the Secretary allows an exemption under order 8.”.
4. Order 8 (Exemption from prohibition)
4.1 Paragraph 8.2 (d):
Omit the paragraph, substitute:
“(d) if a merino is purchased at a public auction or sale for consignment for slaughter in an overseas country (except New Zealand), whether the intending exporter has completed a statutory declaration:
(i) stating that the merino is for slaughter; and
(ii) specifying the country to which the merino is to be consigned; and
(iii) setting out the purchase price of the merino;”.
4.2 Suborder 8.2:
Omit “the merino rams or”, substitute “a merino or of”.
NOTES
1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 1994.
2. Note: The table below provides a list of all Livestock Export (Merino) Orders made up until the making of these Orders.
Livestock Export (Merino) Orders No. 2 of 1994 3
Name of Orders No and Date made Date of Year entry into
force
Livestock Export (Merino) Orders 1 of 1990 12.7. 90 18.7.90
Livestock Export (Merino) Orders 2 of 1990 22.8.90 26.8.90
Livestock Export (Merino) Orders 1 of 1991 30.5.91 12.6.91
Livestock Export (Merino) Orders 2 of 1991 6.11.91 19.11.91
Livestock Export (Merino) Orders 1 of 1992 24.6.92 26.6.92
Livestock Export (Merino) Orders 1 of 1993 17.6.93 30.6.93
Livestock Export (Merino) Orders 1 of 1994 1.7.94 13.7.94