Western Australian Current Regulations Western Australian Current Regulations (1) A person who will
be the livestock transporter of a livestock animal that is about to undertake
a journey must ensure that the livestock animal is assessed, immediately
before it is loaded, to determine whether it is unfit to undertake a journey.
Penalty for this subregulation: a fine of
$15 000.
(2) A person must not
load a livestock animal, or cause a livestock animal to be loaded, if the
livestock animal is unfit to undertake a journey.
Penalty for this subregulation: a fine of
$15 000.
(3) It is a defence to
a charge under subregulation (2) for a person to prove that —
(a) a
veterinarian advised that the livestock animal could undertake the journey;
and
(b) the
livestock animal was loaded and transported in accordance with that
veterinarian’s advice.
(4) In the case of a
charge under subregulation (2) against a livestock transporter, it is a
defence to the charge for a person to prove that the livestock transporter
took all reasonable steps to ensure that the livestock animal was assessed,
immediately before it was loaded, to determine whether it was unfit to
undertake a journey.
[Regulation 33 amended: SL 2020/234
r. 4; SL 2022/98 r. 11.]