New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RURAL LANDS PROTECTION ACT 1998 - SECT 43

43 Animal health functions

(1) Without limiting section 42, an authority has the following functions in relation to animal health:

(a) the facilitation of the provision of the following types of programs (including by providing resources for such programs):

(i) animal disease prevention, management, control and eradication programs,

(ii) chemical residue prevention, management and control programs,

(b) the delivery of advisory services (including by providing resources for such services) related to the following:

(i) animal disease prevention, management, control and eradication,

(ii) chemical residue prevention, management and control,

(c) the provision of resources for conducting animal disease surveillance programs,

(d) the collection, collation, interpretation and reporting of animal disease surveillance information,

(e) the maintenance of records relating to, and making reports on, the disease status and chemical residue status of stock and land,

(f) the provision of animal health services (including advisory services and services related to animal production) with respect to stock and any other animal that has a disease that may affect stock in the authority’s district,

(g) the implementation of emergency animal disease preparedness and response programs.

Note: Functions relating to animal health are also dealt with under the memorandum of understanding entered into under section 13.

(2) Nothing in subsection (1) (f) confers a function on an authority to provide animal health services of a kind that would ordinarily be provided by a private veterinary practitioner.