New South Wales Repealed Regulations

This legislation has been repealed.

STOCK DISEASES (GENERAL) REGULATION 1997 - REG 20A

20A Manufacture and supply of identifiers

(1) A person must not make an approved identifier unless the person is authorised by the Director-General to make them.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units.

(2) A person, whether or not authorised under subclause (1), must not make, or sell or supply, an approved identifier unless the person is in receipt of an order for it endorsed by the district registrar or a person authorised by the district registrar.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units.

(3) An order referred to in subclause (2) may be made by the district registrar on application by (or by the authorised agent of):

(a) a person entitled to apply for a property identification code for a holding, or

(b) an owner of stock to which clause 16D applies,

on payment of such reasonable fee (if any) as the board for the district within which the relevant holding is situated may determine.

(4) A fee determined under subclause (3) must not exceed the maximum fee determined by the Director-General.

(5) A person must not, knowing that it is or may be intended to be attached to any stock, make, sell or supply anything that is not, but could reasonably be mistaken for, an approved identifier.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units.

(6) A person is not guilty of an offence under subclause (5) if the court is satisfied that the person did not realise, and could not reasonably be expected to have realised, that the thing the person made, sold or supplied, as the case may be, could reasonably be mistaken for an approved identifier.