SOUTH AUSTRALIA
STOCK ACT, 1990 STOCK ACT, 1990
being
Stock Act, 1990, No. 62 of 1990 [Assented to 6 December 1990]
1 1 Came into operation 30 May 1991:
Gaz . 23 May 1991, p. 1638.
An Act to prevent or control disease and residues in stock and stock products and to provide for the regulation of the artificial breeding of stock; to repeal the Stock Diseases Act, 1934; to make consequential amendments to the Cattle Compensation Act, 1939, the Foot and Mouth Disease Eradication Fund Act, 1958, and the Swine Compensation Act, 1936; and for other purposes.
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:
PART I
PRELIMINARY
1. This Act may be cited as theStock Act, 1990 .
2. This Act will come into operation on a day to be fixed by proclamation.
4. (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears—"artificial breeding procedure" means—
artificial insemination of stock; | |
any operation by which an embryo is collected from a head of stock and implanted in another head of stock; | |
or | |
collecting, processing, handling, storing or distributing semen, ova or embryos of stock for the purposes of a procedure referred to in paragraph |
"Chief Inspector" means the Chief Inspector of Stock appointed pursuant to this Act:
"contaminated property" means—
in relation to disease—any land, or anything (other than any stock or stock product), contaminated with disease; | |
in relation to residues—any land, or anything (other than any stock or stock product), containing or producing a substance capable of causing stock that consume it or come into contact with it to become residue affected: |
"diagnostic laboratory" means a place in which samples or specimens from stock or stock products are tested or analysed for the purposes of determining whether they are infected or contaminated with disease or residue:
"disease" means—
a disease (including any bacterium, virus, protozoa, arthropod or other pathogen or organism that is capable of causing such a disease in stock), or a parasite or pest of a class, referred to in a notice under section 5(1); | |
or | |
an exotic disease: |
"endangered stock" means—
in relation to stock that are or are suspected of being infected—stock that have, during the prescribed period, been pastured or kept together on the same holding, transported in the same vehicle, vessel or aircraft, or kept together in the same group, as those stock unless they are of a class that is not susceptible to the disease; | |
in relation to stock that are or are suspected of being residue affected—stock that have, during the prescribed period, been pastured or kept together on the same holding, or kept in the same group, as those stock: |
"exotic disease" means—
foot and mouth disease; | |
rabies; | |
or | |
a disease, or a parasite or pest of a class, declared by the Minister under section 5 to… |