Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

ANIMAL DISEASES ACT 1993 (NO. 61 OF 1993)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART I--PRELIMINARY SHORT TITLE

   1.      This Act may be cited as the Animal Diseases Act 1993.  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Repeal  
   4.      Interpretation  

   PART II--ADMINISTRATION DIRECTOR OF VETERINARY HYGIENE

   5.      (1) The Minister shall, by instrument, appoint a public servant who is a veterinary surgeon to be the Director of Veterinary Hygiene.  
   6.      Acting Director  
   7.      Delegation  
   8.      Appointment of inspectors  
   9.      Exercise of inspector's powers  
   10.     Identity cards  
   11.     Return of identity cards  

   PART III--EXOTIC DISEASES OF ANIMALS DECLARATION OF EXOTIC DISEASES

   12.     (1) The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, declare a disease to be an exotic disease for the purposes of this Act.  
   13.     Notification of diseases  
   14.     Exotic disease quarantine area  
   15.     Importation restriction  
   16.     Ministerial direction  
   17.     Destruction of animals and other property  
   18.     Compensation for animals or property destroyed  
   19.     Removal of refuse  
   20.     Court proceedings  

   PART IV--ENDEMIC DISEASES OF STOCK

   21.     (1) The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette—  
   22.     Notification of diseases  
   23.     Endemic stock disease quarantine area  
   24.     Ministerial direction  
   25.     Detaining infected stock  
   26.     Restriction on stock movements  
   27.     Destruction of infected stock  
   28.     Compensation for stock destroyed  
   29.     (1) A person shall not, without reasonable excuse, travel or transport defined stock to or from an abattoir or a saleyard or any other place for sale unless the stock is tagged with an approved tag or, if the stock is being travelled or transported within a period of 28 days after the sale of that stock, with an approved tag—  
   30.     Defined stock  
   31.     Register  
   32.     Applications  
   33.     Allocation of tag numbers  
   34.     Approved manufacturers  
   35.     Manufacture and issue of tags  
   36.     Tagging defined stock  
   37.     Alteration of tags  
   38.     Tags to remain with carcasses  
   39.     Records of untagged stock  
   40.     Emergency tags  
   41.     Cancellation of tag numbers  
   42.     Evidentiary certificates  

   PART V--ENFORCEMENT

   43.     In this Part—“disease” means an exotic disease or an endemic stock disease.  
   44.     Entry to premises  
   45.     Consent to entry  
   46.     Search warrants  
   47.     Inspectors powers—general  
   48.     Inspectors powers—travelling stock  
   49.     Public notices  
   50.     Non-compliance with directions and cost recovery  
   51.     A person shall not, without reasonable excuse, contravene a restriction specified in a declaration under section 14, 15 or 23.  
   52.     Obstruction of inspectors  
   53.     Self-incrimination  
   54.     Spreading disease  
   55.     Use of vaccines etc.  
   56.     Abandoning infected animals or carcasses  
   57.     Selling infected animals  
   58.     Interference with structures  
   59.     Corporations—penalties  

   PART VI--MISCELLANEOUS CERTIFICATE OF FREEDOM FROM DISEASE

   60.     (1) The owner or occupier of premises may apply to the Minister in writing for a declaration that the premises are not infected with a specified exotic disease or endemic stock disease.  
   61.     Review of decisions  
   62.     Notification of decisions  
   63.     Determination of fees  
   64.     Regulations  

   PART VII--TRANSITIONAL INTERPRETATION

   65.     In this Part—“commencement day” means the day on which this Act (other than sections 1 and 2) commences; “repealed Act” means the Stock Diseases Act 1933.  
   66.     Stock  
   67.     Continuation of appointment of Director and inspectors  
   68.     Direction for the destruction of stock  
   69.     Compensation for stock  
   70.     Declaration of defined stock  
   71.     Continuing register  
   72.     Application for a stock tag number  
   73.     Stock tag numbers  
   74.     Manufacturers  
   75.     Authority to issue tags  
   76.     Manner of tagging defined stock  
   77.     Cancellation of tag numbers  
   78.     Evidentiary certificates  
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