New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RURAL LANDS PROTECTION ACT 1998 - SECT 56A

56A Director-General may direct authority staff during emergency disease outbreaks

(1) During an emergency animal disease outbreak period, the Director-General may direct members of the animal health staff of an authority to take such actions as the Director-General considers appropriate.

(2) A member of the animal health staff of the authority is to comply with any such direction.

(3) In this section:
"emergency animal disease outbreak period" means a period:

(a) that commences on the date that an order under section 76 of the Animal Diseases (Emergency Outbreaks) Act 1991 comes into force, and

(b) ends on the date that the Director-General determines, by notice in writing given to the State Council and each authority, for the purposes of this paragraph.

"member of the animal health staff", of an authority, means a member of staff of the authority who is:

(a) a veterinarian, or

(b) an inspector within the meaning of the Stock Diseases Act 1923 .