Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts(1) The Executive may make regulations for this Act.
Note A regulation must be notified, and presented to the Legislative Assembly, under the Legislation Act.
(2) A regulation may make provision in relation to the following:
(a) prohibiting entry into the ACT of infected animals;
(b) prohibiting movement of animals for a period of not longer than 72 hours;
(c) the conditions under which animals may be brought into the ACT;
(d) inspecting animals brought into the ACT;
(e) preventing the introduction of, or the spread of, exotic diseases or endemic diseases;
(f) the artificial breeding of stock;
(g) detaining, treating, inoculating or isolating animals in a quarantine area;
(h) moving animals within, into, or out of, a quarantine area;
(i) seizing and destroying infected animals;
(j) treating or decontaminating any premise or thing that may spread an exotic or endemic disease;
(k) branding infected animals;
(l) closing of any road in or adjacent to a quarantine area or erecting of fences or gates across any road to regulate or prevent the movement of animals;
(m) the methods of diagnosing and discovering exotic and endemic diseases;
(n) the requirements for tags;
(o) declarations to be given by sellers of animals about the health and welfare of the animals or farming practices, chemicals or biological products used with the animals; or
(p) schemes of identification of stock (whether on a compulsory or voluntary basis).
(3) A regulation may create offences and fix maximum penalties of not more than 10 penalty units for the offences.
(4) In this section:
farming practices includes practices relating to—
(a) disease management in animals; and
(b) the genetic modification of animals; and
(c) the breeding of animals.