Northern Territory Consolidated Regulations

VETERINARIANS REGULATIONS - REG 6

The following services are not veterinary services within the meaning of the Act:

        (a)     performing the Mules operation on sheep;

        (b)     dehorning cattle or buffaloes that are less than 12 months old;

        (c)     castrating cattle, buffaloes, horses, camels, goats, sheep or animals of any other species to which this paragraph is extended by the Minister by notice in the Gazette , that are:

            (i)     less than 12 months old; and

            (ii)     kept for human consumption in the course of primary production or, in the case of horses, for stock work;

        (d)     tailing lambs that are less than 6 months old;

        (e)     vaccinating animals kept in the course of primary production;

        (f)     implanting animals with hormonal growth promotants;

        (g)     branding or marking animals;

        (h)     pregnancy testing cattle or buffaloes by rectal examination;

        (j)     treatment of internal and external parasites except by nosogastric intubation;

        (k)     with the written approval of the Chief Inspector, spaying cattle using a technique approved by the Chief Inspector.