New South Wales Repealed Regulations

This legislation has been repealed.

STOCK DISEASES (GENERAL) REGULATION 1997 - REG 29

29 Communicating disease to stock: section 20A

(1) For the purposes of section 20A of the Act, a person may communicate a disease to stock:

(a) for the purpose of preventing the stock from contracting that or any other disease, or

(b) for the purpose of treating stock for that or any other disease,

but only in the circumstances set out in subclause (2), (3) or (4).

(2) The person may communicate the disease in the course of treating stock with a stock medicine approved by the Chief, Division of Animal Industries, but only if the treatment is carried out in accordance with the manufacturer's directions for administering the stock medicine.

(3) The person may communicate the disease in the course of vaccinating stock with a vaccine approved by the Chief, Division of Animal Industries, but only where the vaccination is carried out:

(a) by a person authorised by the Chief, Division of Animal Industries, to vaccinate stock with that vaccine, and

(b) in accordance with the manufacturer's directions for administering the vaccine,

and not in the circumstances referred to in subclause (4).

(4) The person may communicate the disease in the course of vaccinating export stock with tick fever vaccine, but only if:

(a) vaccination is carried out with the prior approval of an authorised officer for each animal to be vaccinated, and

(b) vaccination is carried out by a veterinary surgeon, and

(c) vaccination is carried out elsewhere than in:

(i) a cattle tick quarantine area, or

(ii) a tick fever protected area, and

(d) vaccinated stock are not permitted to enter:

(i) a cattle tick quarantine area, or

(ii) a tick fever protected area, and

(e) all stock to be vaccinated are, at the time of vaccination, individually identified in a manner approved by the authorised officer, and

(f) all unused vaccine is destroyed by the person carrying out the vaccination by boiling or microwave heating.

(5) This clause does not authorise a person to treat or vaccinate stock in contravention of any other provision of this Regulation.

(6) In this clause:
"authorised officer" means any of the following officers of the Department of Agriculture:

(a) the Chief, Division of Animal Industries,

(b) the Program Manager (Quality Assurance),

(c) the Senior Regulatory Officer,

(d) a Senior Field Veterinary Officer.

"cattle tick quarantine area" means a quarantine area declared on account of the infestation of stock by cattle tick (Boophilus microplus).
"export stock" means stock whose export out of the State is imminent.
"tick fever" means either or both of the diseases anaplasmosis and babesiosis (bovine).
"tick fever protected area" means a protected area declared on account of the presence or suspected presence of tick fever.
"tick fever vaccine" means a vaccine to prevent tick fever obtained from the Tick Fever Research Centre of the Department of Primary Industries of Queensland.