New South Wales Consolidated Acts

STOCK MEDICINES ACT 1989 - SECT 3

3 Definitions

(1) In this Act:
"Agvet Code" means the provisions applying because of section 5 of the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (New South Wales) Act 1994 .
"analyst" means a person for the time being authorised under section 49 to be an analyst for the purposes of this Act.
"Director-General" means the Director-General of the Department of Industry and Investment.
"food producing species" means stock that produces food for human consumption or is used as food for human beings, and includes:

(a) any buffalo, cattle, deer, fish (other than ornamental fish), goat, kangaroo, pig, poultry, rabbit, sheep, bee, crustacean or mollusc, or

(b) any other type or species of stock prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this definition.

Note: The definition of "food producing species" is modelled on the definition in the Agvet Code.

"inspector" means a person for the time being authorised under section 48 to be an inspector for the purposes of this Act.
"major food producing species" means:

(a) cattle, sheep, pigs or chickens, or

(b) any other type or species of stock prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this definition.

"package" includes anything in or by which any stock medicine is covered, enclosed, contained or packed.
"permit" means a permit under section 32 that is in force.
"pest" has the same meaning as in the Agvet Code.
"prescribe", in relation to a stock medicine, means the giving by a veterinary practitioner of a written instruction to a person for the supply to that person of the stock medicine (or the supply of stock food treated with the stock medicine):

(a) by a pharmacist, or

(b) by a person licensed or authorised under the Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 1966 to supply a restricted substance that is a stock medicine.

"registered human pharmaceutical" means a therapeutic good (as defined in the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 of the Commonwealth) that is listed or registered in the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods maintained under that Act.
"registered stock medicine" means a stock medicine that has registration, or listed registration, under the Agvet Code.
"sell" includes do, or cause or permit the doing of, any of the following:

(a) expose for sale,

(b) send or deliver for sale or on sale,

(c) dispose of under a hire purchase agreement,

(d) exchange,

(e) offer to do an act that would be a sale (including an act referred to in any of the above paragraphs),

and, for example, includes supply under a contract for work or labour that also involves the supply of any thing.
"stock" has the same meaning as animal in the Agvet Code.
"stock medicine" has the same meaning as veterinary chemical product in the Agvet Code, but excludes a veterinary chemical product (within the meaning of that Code) that is represented as being suitable for, or is manufactured, supplied or used for, the external control of ectoparasites of stock.
"substance" has the same meaning as in the Agvet Code.
"supply" includes do, or cause or permit the doing of, any of the following:

(a) sell,

(b) give,

(c) offer to do an act that would be a supply (including an act referred to in any of the above paragraphs).

"tag" means a tag attached to stock in accordance with the requirements of the provisions of the Stock Diseases Act 1923 or any regulations made under that Act relating to the identification of stock.
"veterinary practitioner" has the same meaning as in the Veterinary Practice Act 2003 .
"withholding period", in relation to a stock medicine, means the minimum period which should elapse between the last administration of the stock medicine and:

(a) the slaughter for human consumption of an animal to which the stock medicine has been administered, or

(b) the harvesting of wool, fibre, milk or eggs or the release of honey for human consumption from an animal to which the stock medicine has been administered.

(2) In this Act, references to stock include references to individual members of any species or class of stock.

(3) Notes included in this Act do not form part of this Act.