New South Wales Consolidated Acts

STOCK DISEASES ACT 1923 - SECT 14

14 Quarantine

(1) Where land or stock are by the provisions of this Act to be quarantined, the quarantine may be general or in respect of a particular disease.

(2) The nature of the quarantine shall be stated in the notice, order or notification imposing the quarantine or in the undertaking given with respect to any land or stock under the provisions of section 11.

(3) A quarantine may be imposed or declared for a disease although the land or stock are already in quarantine for another disease.

(4) The course of action to be taken by the owner or occupier of land or the owner or person in charge of stock when the land or stock is in a quarantine area, protected area or protected (control) area or is required to be quarantined shall be as prescribed by regulation or as ordered by an inspector.

(4A) The regulations or orders of an inspector under subsection (4) can extend to the course of action to be taken in respect of artificial breeding material on the land concerned by the owner or occupier of the land or the owner or person in charge of the artificial breeding material.

(5) The Minister may by notification in the Gazette apply to any specified part of a quarantine area, protected area or protected (control) area special and more drastic provisions than those which may be operating in the rest of the quarantine area, protected area or protected (control) area.

(6) The Minister may by a like notification direct that any or all stock within a quarantine area, protected area or protected (control) area or within some specified part of a quarantine area, protected area or protected (control) area shall be treated by prophylactic or curative methods for the disease or suspected disease in respect of which the quarantine is imposed or the protected area or the protected (control) area is declared, whether the stock are diseased or infected or not, and in any such notification the Minister may also direct that any or all of such stock shall be submitted, at a specified time or at specified intervals, to any specified test or tests for any disease or suspected disease.