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STOCK (SELLER LIABILITY AND DECLARATIONS) ACT 1993
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
PART 1--PRELIMINARY
1. Purpose
2. Commencement
3. Definitions
4. Governor in Council may make orders
PART 2--CONDITIONS OF SALE OF STOCK OR LIVESTOCK PRODUCTS
5. Stock sold must meet minimum requirements
6. Consequences of breaching a section 5 condition
7. Who owns stock that has been sold with a relevant disease or condition?
8. Buyer may renounce ownership of stock
9. Consequences of breaching a section 5 condition if carcass of stock partially condemned
10. Limitation of effect of section 5 special condition
PART 3--DECLARATIONS BY SELLERS AS TO QUALITY OF STOCK OR LIVESTOCK PRODUCTS
11. Seller may make an ongoing declaration as to quality
12. Seller may make a one-off declaration as to quality
13. Consequences of breaching a declaration
14. Withdrawal of an ongoing declaration
15. Register of ongoing declarations
16. Registration of ongoing declarations
17. Secretary may suspend registration of ongoing declaration on certain grounds
17A. Secretary may cancel registration of suspended declaration if grounds remain
18. Register may be inspected
18A. Other declarations as to quality of stock
PART 4--DISPUTES
19. Seller must presume certificates valid
20. Procedure if a seller wishes to dispute the accuracy of a certificate
21. Procedure if seller disputes the amount claimed by buyer
22. Defence to claim by buyer if amount claimed excessive
PART 4A--REVIEW BY VICTORIAN CIVIL AND ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL
22A. Review by VCAT
PART 5--ADMINISTRATIVE AND ENFORCEMENT PROVISIONS
23. Secretary may delegate powers and functions
24. Secretary may set fees
25. Appointment of inspectors
26. Power of inspectors to enter property to enforce this Act
27. Powers of person holding a warrant
28. Offences concerning the execution of warrants
29. Infringement notice
32. Only stock inspectors may bring prosecutions under this Act
PART 6--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
33. Certificates as to contents of register are evidence
34. How presence of disease or condition may be established
35. How cost of stock sold as part of a lot to be determined
36. Recovery of amounts owed
37. Rights conferred by this Act additional to other rights
38. Regulations
SCHEDULE
ENDNOTES
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