Queensland Consolidated Acts

BRANDS ACT 1915 - SECT 11A

11A Registration of pig brands

(1) The registrar, if satisfied that an application for a pig brand is in conformity with this Act, shall allot to the applicant a pig brand and register the brand in the name of the applicant.

(2) The registrar shall register a pig brand for use only—

(a) at 1 or more properties; or

(b) in the district;

to be specified by the registrar and notified by the registrar to the applicant.

(2A) Upon application by the owner, the registrar may alter or vary the registration of a pig brand by—

(c) deleting any property or district specified; or

(d) specifying any property or district in substitution therefor; or

(e) specifying any additional property;

and shall notify the owner whereupon the brand shall be deemed to be registered for use at the property or properties or in the district as so altered or varied.

(2B) A person shall not use a pig brand elsewhere than at a property or in a district for the time being specified by the registrar.

(3) A pig brand shall consist of letters, numerals, signs or characters or any combination thereof.

(3A) The shape, pattern and arrangement of the letters, numerals, signs or characters comprising a pig brand shall be as the Minister, subject to this Act, determines.

(4) The face depth of any letter, numeral, sign or character included in a pig brand shall be not less than 12mm and not more than 25mm.

(4A) The face depth of any letter, numeral, sign or character which, when properly imprinted upon an animal would be in a position other than vertical, shall be measured with such letter, numeral, sign or, as the case may be, character in the vertical position.

(5) A pig brand shall be imprinted upon each side of a pig by way of tattoo with a branding instrument of an approved type or make and an approved fluid or paste.

(5A) The chief executive administering the Biosecurity Act 2014 may from time to time approve—

(a) any type or make of branding instrument; and

(b) any fluid or paste;

for use in imprinting pig brands by way of tattoo upon pigs for the purposes of this Act.

(6) A person shall not imprint a pig brand upon any pig otherwise than in accordance with this Act.

(7) The registrar shall from time to time as the registrar thinks desirable cause to be published a list of makes or types of branding instruments and fluids and pastes approved by the chief executive administering the Biosecurity Act 2014 for the purposes of this section.

(8) The registrar shall—

(a) as soon as possible after 31 December in every fourth year, cause to be compiled and published a pig brands directory containing all the pig brands registered up to that date;

(b) from time to time as the registrar thinks desirable cause to be published a statement indicating all transfers, alterations, additions and removals made in the pig brands directory during the period indicated in the statement and certified by the registrar to a date indicated in that statement;

and as soon as possible after publication shall cause copies of the directory or, as the case may be, statement to be transmitted to such keepers of public pounds, inspectors and clerks of the court in the State as the Minister approves.