Western Australian Repealed Regulations

This legislation has been repealed.

ENZOOTIC DISEASES REGULATIONS 1970 - REG 107

107 .         Disease testing for r. 106(1), method of

                The tests required by regulation 106(1) to be carried out on a sample of pearl oysters are —

            (a)         a culture of as many pearl oysters as an approved fish pathologist reasonably requires for testing in Ray’s medium (Ray, S.M., 1966 Proceedings of the National Shellfisheries Association 54, 55-66); and

            (b)         a histological examination of as many formalin-seawater fixed pearl oysters as an approved fish pathologist reasonably requires for testing using haematoxylin and eosin stained longitudinal sections of paraffin embedded tissue; and

            (c)         any other test that the pathologist considers appropriate.

        [Regulation 107 inserted in Gazette 17 Dec 1999 p. 6182; amended in Gazette 23 May 2008 p. 1988-9.]