New South Wales Consolidated Acts

STOCK DISEASES ACT 1923 - SECT 20C

20C Movement of stock and artificial breeding material

(1) A person must not move any stock, or cause or permit any stock to be moved:

(a) across a quarantine line, unless the movement is in accordance with the conditions specified in the notification declaring the quarantine line, or

(b) into a protected area or a protected (control) area, unless the movement is in accordance with such conditions as may be prescribed by the regulations, or

(c) into, within or out of a quarantine area or from infected land, or

(d) if an inspector has ordered the stock to be tested under section 7 (1) (bii), the stock have not yet been tested in accordance with that order and an inspector has not given permission for the stock to be moved, or

(e) otherwise in contravention of this Act or the regulations.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units.

(2) A person must not move any infected stock or cause or permit any infected stock to be moved:

(a) on, along or across any public road or railway, or

(b) in or through any public place, or

(c) to, on or across any land (including any stock saleyard, and any travelling stock reserve within the meaning of the Rural Lands Protection Act 1998 ) except on or across land owned or occupied by the owner of the stock.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units.

(3) A person does not commit an offence against this section by doing anything in accordance with a permit under section 7 (6) or an order under section 8 (1) (b) or if the person moves stock when all of the following conditions are satisfied:

(a) the stock are infected 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),

(b) the stock are transported in a vehicle directly to an abattoir for the slaughter of the stock or directly to 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 movement of infected 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 moved.

(4) For the purposes of subsection (2) (c), the holder of an authority under the Rural Lands Protection Act 1998 to walk or graze stock on a travelling stock reserve is not an occupier of that reserve.

(5) The owner of a vehicle in which infected stock are transported and any person having custody or control of the vehicle are guilty of an offence against this Act if any manure, hair and other matter which is, or can harbour, a disease or disease organism have not been cleaned from the vehicle immediately after the stock have left the vehicle.

Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units.

(5A) A person is not guilty of an offence under subsection (5) if the person did not know, and could not reasonably be expected to have known, that the stock transported in the vehicle concerned were infected stock.

(6) In this section:
"infected stock" means stock that are infected and includes:

(a) any infected class of stock, or

(b) any infected carcass, or

(c) any fodder, fittings or animal products infected, contaminated or infested with a stock disease.

"stock" includes any class of stock, or any artificial breeding material, carcass, fodder, fittings or animal products.