New South Wales Consolidated Acts

STOCK DISEASES ACT 1923 - SECT 20B

20B Sale of diseased stock

(1) A person must not sell stock which the person has reason to believe, or ought to know, are diseased.

Maximum penalty: 200 penalty units.

(2) This section does not prevent the sale of diseased stock which an order under section 8 (1) (b) requires to be removed either to the place of the sale or to another place from the place of the sale.

(3) This section does not prevent the sale of stock diseased only with footrot, sheep lice, Brucella ovis infection or any other disease declared by the Minister for the purposes of this section (or only with more than one of those diseases), if:

(a) the sale is directly to an abattoir for slaughter, or

(b) the sale takes place at a sale approved by the Director-General for stock infected only with one or more of those diseases.

(3A) This section does not prevent the sale of diseased stock to a feedlot that:

(a) transports all its stock directly to slaughter, and

(b) is authorised in writing by the Director-General as a feedlot to which infected stock may be sold.

(4) In this section, "sell" includes offer for sale, assist in selling and attempt to sell.