New South Wales Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

STOCK (ARTIFICIAL BREEDING) ACT 1985 - SECT 4

4 Definitions

(1) In this Act, except in so far as the context or subject-matter otherwise indicates or requires:
"approval" means an approval issued under Part 2 and in force.
"artificial breeding procedure" means each of the procedures of collecting, processing, handling, storing and distributing semen or ova and includes artificial insemination and ovum transfer.
"artificial insemination" means any operation, other than mating, by which semen is introduced into the reproductive tract of female stock to induce pregnancy.
"collect", in relation to semen or ova, includes assess the semen or ova in the course of collecting the semen or ova.
"Director-General" means the person for the time being holding or acting in the office of Director-General of the Department of Agriculture.
"disease", in relation to a species of stock, means any disease of stock for the time being declared to be a disease in that species for the purposes of this Act by an order of the Minister published in the Gazette.

Note: For declared diseases see the Historical notes at the end of this Act.

"distribute" includes supply, send, deliver, give, donate and despatch by any means, whether or not in return for consideration.
"handle", in relation to semen or ova, means touch, remove or otherwise interfere with:

(a) the semen or ova, or

(b) any receptacle containing the semen or ova (otherwise than as a normal incident of transporting any such receptacle),

after the semen has, or the ova have, been processed.
"inspector" means a person appointed as inspector under the Stock Diseases Act 1923 .
"introduce" includes import.
"licence" means a licence issued under Part 2 and in force.
"licensee" means the holder for the time being of a licence.
"licensed premises" means premises that are subject to a licence.
"occupier", in relation to premises:

(a) includes a person in charge of the premises as a manager or lessee or otherwise, and

(b) where the premises are subject to a licence, includes the holder of the licence.

"ova" means:

(a) germ cells of female stock, or

(b) cells of female stock that can develop into new members of the same species after maturation and fertilisation,

and includes fertilised cells, embryos and foetuses up to the first third of pregnancy, but does not include cells or embryos of an avian species of stock.
"ovum transfer" means any operation by which an ovum is collected from female stock and implanted in other female stock either by way of an intermediate host animal or otherwise.
"premises" includes any place.
"process", in relation to semen or ova, means any procedure (including assessing, diluting, chilling, freezing and packing) carried out in the course of preparing collected semen or ova for use in artificial insemination or, as the case may be, ovum transfer, but does not include the thawing of that semen or those ova immediately prior to that use.
"regulation" means a regulation made under this Act.
"sell" includes:

(a) barter or exchange,

(b) agree to sell,

(c) offer or expose for sale,

(d) have in possession for sale, and

(e) send, forward, or deliver for or on sale.

"semen" means the fluid produced by the reproductory organs of male stock and includes:

(a) any part of that fluid, and

(b) spermatozoa in any fluid or frozen medium.

"stock" means cattle, horses, sheep, goats, swine, deer, buffalo, poultry and any other species of animal for the time being declared to be stock for the purposes of this Act by an order of the Minister published in the Gazette.
"superintendent", in relation to premises, means the holder of a supervisor’s approval for the premises.
"supervisor’s approval" means an approval referred to in section 11.
"vehicle" includes aircraft of any type.
"veterinary practitioner" has the same meaning as in the Veterinary Practice Act 2003 .

(2) In this Act, a reference to a technical aspect of an artificial breeding procedure is a reference to anything prescribed by the regulations as a technical aspect of the procedure.