New South Wales Consolidated Acts

STOCK MEDICINES ACT 1989 - SECT 40B

40B Breach of specified withholding period

(1) If stock of a food producing species has been treated with a stock medicine, a person must not cause or permit:

(a) the slaughter of the stock for human consumption, or

(b) the harvest of the wool, fibre, milk or eggs of the stock for human consumption, or

(c) the release of the honey of the stock for human consumption,

before the relevant withholding period has expired.

Maximum penalty: 200 penalty units or, for an offence by a corporation, 400 penalty units.

(2) It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence against this section that:

(a) the person was not aware that the stock had been treated with a stock medicine, or

(c) there were instructions for the use of the stock medicine on the package or label at the time of the commission of the offence (whether or not those instructions specified a withholding period) and the person, at the time, did not know, and did not have reasonable grounds for suspecting, that those instructions were not (either wholly or partially) the instructions required to be on the package or label.