New South Wales Consolidated Acts

STOCK MEDICINES ACT 1989 - SECT 6A

6A Application of Agvet Code to veterinary practitioners and persons acting under the instructions of veterinary practitioners

(1) The object of this section is to expressly permit veterinary practitioners, and persons acting under the instructions of veterinary practitioners, to do things that other provisions of this Act impliedly permit them to do, and so to exempt them from certain offences arising under Part 4 of the Agvet Code.

(2) For the purposes of section 73 of the Agvet Code, it is declared that a veterinary practitioner is permitted to do anything:

(a) that constitutes an offence under this Act, or

(b) that would constitute such an offence (but for regulations under the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (New South Wales) Act 1994 suspending provisions of this Act),

if the provision giving rise to the offence expressly excludes the veterinary practitioner from the application of that provision.

(3) Subsection (2) does not exempt a person from the requirements of any other Act or law.

(4) In this section:
"do" includes omit to do.
"veterinary practitioner" includes a person acting under the instructions of a veterinary practitioner.