New South Wales Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

STOCK (ARTIFICIAL BREEDING) ACT 1985 - SECT 3

3 Application of Act

(1) This Act binds the Crown.

(2) This Act does not operate so as to make it unlawful for the owner of stock or an employee of the owner:

(a) to collect semen or ova from the stock,

(b) to process, handle or store semen or ova from the stock, or

(c) to perform on the stock any artificial breeding procedure with semen that has been, or ova that have been, collected from that stock or which is semen that has been, or ova that have been:

(i) collected in the State from stock on licensed premises or introduced into the State in accordance with this Act, and

(ii) processed, handled and stored in accordance with this Act and the regulations,

on premises occupied by the owner of the stock, notwithstanding that those premises are not licensed under this Act.

(3) In subsection (2), a reference to the owner of stock is a reference to:

(a) one natural person who holds all interests in the stock,

(b) each of the members of a partnership of which all the members are natural persons, not more than 4 of whom are of or above the age of 18 years, being a partnership the members of which jointly hold all interests in the stock,

(c) a body corporate which holds all interests in the stock, where not more than 4 natural persons hold all interests in the body corporate,

(c1) a member of a family:

(i) which owns all interests in the stock, whether or not through a partnership consisting of members of the family only, or

(ii) which wholly owns a company that owns all interests in the stock, and

(d) any other person and persons of any class, in each case approved by the Director-General as owners of stock for the purposes of that subsection.

(5) This Act does not operate so as to exempt the holder of a licence or an approval or any other person from complying with any requirement made by or under any other Act.

(6) It is not an offence under this Act for a person to collect semen or ova from any stock for research, education, examination or disease testing or for any other purpose not associated with artificial breeding even though the stock may not be on licensed premises when the semen is, or ova are, collected.