New South Wales Consolidated Acts

STOCK (CHEMICAL RESIDUES) ACT 1975 - SECT 3

3 Definitions

In this Act, except in so far as the context or subject-matter otherwise indicates or requires:
"carcass" includes any portion of a carcass and the hide, skin, hair, wool or viscera of any stock.
"chemically affected" stock means stock that, by virtue of an order in force under section 4, are chemically affected.
"Department" means the Department of Primary Industries.
"detention notice" means a notice in force under section 7 or 8.
"Director-General" means the Director-General of the Department.
"holding" means any land or collection of lands which are contiguous to each other or separated only by a road, river, creek or watercourse and which constitute and are worked as one property.
"inspector" means an inspector appointed under the Stock Diseases Act 1923 .
"occupier", in relation to land, includes any person having the charge, control or management of the land.
"record" includes 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 made under this Act.
"residue" means:

(a) a substance remaining in the body tissues or secretions of stock resulting from the use of or contact with any pesticide, drug or other chemical, whether of the same or of a different kind or nature, or

(b) a natural secretion which is present in the body tissues of stock in an abnormal concentration.

(a) cattle, sheep, goats and pigs, and

(b) other animals or birds of a kind used for the food of people that the Minister, by order published in the Gazette, declares to be stock for the purposes of this Act.

Note: For orders under this definition see Gazettes No 140 of 4.9.1987, p 5072 and No 88 of 11.8.1989, p 5389.