New South Wales Consolidated Acts

STOCK DISEASES ACT 1923 - SECT 3

3 Definitions

(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:
"Abattoir" means any premises used for the slaughter of stock or for the processing of carcasses of stock.
"Artificial breeding equipment" means any plant, machinery, equipment, apparatus, utensil, additive, extender, diluent, material or other thing used or intended to be used for or in connection with an artificial breeding procedure.
"Artificial breeding material" means semen, ova and embryos of any stock.
"Artificial breeding procedure" means each of the procedures of collecting, processing, handling, storing and distributing artificial breeding material and includes artificial insemination and ovum transfer.
"Carcass" includes any portion of a carcass, and the hide, skin, hair, wool or viscera of any stock.
"Department" means the Department of Primary Industries.
"Director-General" means the Director-General of the Department.
"Disease" means:

(a) in stock-any disease, parasite or pest declared under section 4 (a) to be a disease in stock for the purposes of provisions of this Act, and

(b) in artificial breeding material-any disease, condition or characteristic declared under section 4 (b) to be a disease in artificial breeding material for the purposes of provisions of this Act.

"Fittings" includes stall fittings, utensils, implements, rugs, harness, chains, headstalls, and anything commonly used for, with or about stock or places where they are kept, and also includes artificial breeding equipment.
"Fodder" includes hay, straw, litter, grass, grass seed, green crop, grain, corn, any type of stock food and the manure of any stock.
"Holding" means any land in respect of which a return of land and stock is required to be furnished under section 76 of the Rural Lands Protection Act 1998 .
"Infected" means:

(a) in relation to stock that the stock are diseased or have been on land on which there are, or have been within the preceding 12 months, diseased stock, or

(a1) in relation to artificial breeding material-that stock bred from the artificial breeding material may, as a result of being bred from the material, be affected by disease in the material, or

(b) in relation to a carcass-that the carcass is of infected stock, or

(c) in relation to land-that the land is land on which diseased stock are present, or have been present during the preceding 12 months, except if that presence consisted only in the transport of the stock by vehicle over the land.

"Inspector" means inspector appointed under this Act.
"Occupier" when used in relation to land includes a person in charge of land as manager, agent or superintendent or otherwise.
"Ova" means:

(a) germ cells of female stock, or

(b) cells of female stock that can develop into new members of the same species after maturation and fertilisation,

and includes fertilised cells, embryos and foetuses up to the end of the first third of pregnancy, but does not include cells or embryos of an avian species of stock.
"Ovum transfer" means any operation by which an ovum is collected from female stock and implanted in other female stock either by way of an intermediate host animal or otherwise.
"Protected area" means land declared by the Minister to be a protected area under section 11A.
"Protected (control) area" means land declared by the Minister to be a protected (control) area under section 11A.
"Quarantine area" means any land which:

(a) is declared by the Minister to be a quarantine area under section 10,

(b) is deemed to be a quarantine area under section 11, or

(c) is declared by an inspector to be a quarantine area under section 8.

"Record" means any book, account, document, paper or other source of written information compiled, recorded or stored in written form, or on microfilm, or by electronic process, or in any other manner or by any other means.
"Regulations" means regulations for the time being in force made under the provisions of this Act.
"Semen" means the fluid produced by the reproductory organs of male stock and includes:

(a) any part of that fluid, and

(b) spermatozoa in any fluid or frozen medium.

"Stock" means horses, cattle, asses, mules, camels, sheep, pigs, or goats, or any animals or birds or any eggs of any birds to which the Governor by proclamation to be published in the Gazette may apply the provisions of this Act.

Note: For proclamations under this definition see Gazettes No 4 of 8.1.1999, p 33 and No 119 of 19.7.2002, p 5476.

"Travelling stock" means stock on any vessel, aeroplane or airship, or taken, driven, or carried along any road or on any land other than that on which they are ordinarily kept or pastured.
"Veterinary practitioner" has the same meaning as in the Veterinary Practice Act 2003 .

(2) For the purposes of this Act (other than section 1), a power to issue a proclamation, to make an order or to give a notification, a notice or an authority shall include and shall be deemed always to have included a power:

(a) to revoke or amend that instrument, or

(b) to extend or suspend for any period the effect of that instrument.

(3) Where by any provision of this Act a person is required to do, or to refrain from doing, some act or thing in relation to the sending of stock to an abattoir for slaughter or to a saleyard for sale, that provision shall be construed as requiring the person to do, or to refrain from doing, the act or thing, whether or not the abattoir or saleyard, as the case may be, is situated in New South Wales.

(4) A reference in this Act to fittings contaminated with disease includes, in the case of a disease in artificial breeding material, a reference to fittings contaminated with infected artificial breeding material.