South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts (1) In this Act,
unless the contrary intention appears—
"affected with a disease or contaminant"—see section 5;
"analyst" means a person approved as an analyst under Part 8;
"artificial breeding centre" means a business or institution in which
artificial breeding procedures are performed on behalf of others on or in
connection with livestock of a prescribed class;
"artificial breeding procedures" means—
(a)
veterinary procedures directed at fertilisation of livestock ova by artificial
means including—
(i)
artificial insemination;
(ii)
collection of livestock embryos and implantation in other
livestock;
(iii)
in vitro fertilisation;
(b)
collecting, processing, handling, storing or distributing livestock semen, ova
or embryos for the purposes of such procedures;
"bee" means a bee of the genus Apis or Megachile ;
"body tissues" of livestock includes the bones, skin, wool or feathers of
livestock;
"brand" includes a paint or fire brand, earmark or tattoo;
"Chief Inspector" means the Chief Inspector of Stock appointed under Part 8;
"contaminant" means—
(a) a
substance remaining in the body tissues or secretions of livestock resulting
from use of or contact with a metallic compound, pesticide, herbicide, drug or
other chemical (whether of the same or of a different kind or nature); or
(b) a
natural secretion present in the body tissues or secretions of livestock in
abnormally high concentration;
"controlling or eradicating disease or contamination"—see
section 6;
"disease" includes any bacterium, virus, parasite, insect or other organism or
agent capable of causing disease in animals or humans;
"exotic disease"—see section 4;
"fish" has the same meaning as in the Fisheries Management Act 2007 ;
"fish farm" means an area in which fish are farmed pursuant to an aquaculture
licence under the Aquaculture Act 2001 ;
"holding" means lands contiguous to each other, or separated only by a road,
railway or watercourse, and worked as one property;
"inspector" means an inspector appointed under Part 8;
"livestock" means animals kept or usually kept in a domestic or captive state,
including—
(a)
poultry; and
(b) fish
kept or usually kept in an aquarium or fish farm; and
(c) bees
for which a hive is kept;
"livestock consultant" means a person who, for fee or reward, provides advice
about, or arranges for the sale or purchase of, livestock;
"livestock industry" includes—
(a) the
manufacture, production or supply of livestock food; and
(b) any
other industry of a class declared by regulation to be within the ambit of
this definition;
"livestock products" means carcasses or parts of carcasses of livestock or any
products consisting of parts of or derived from livestock;
"notifiable condition", "notifiable contaminant" or
"notifiable disease"—see section 4;
"place" includes land, premises, vehicle, vessel or aircraft;
"property" means land or any animal, equipment, thing or matter;
"record" includes any book, document or writing and any other source of
information compiled, recorded or stored by computer, microfilm or other
process, or in any other manner or by any other means;
"sell" includes—
(a)
barter or exchange; or
(b)
advertise, offer or display for sale, barter or exchange,
and "sale" has a corresponding meaning;
"veterinary diagnostic laboratory" means a place in which samples or specimens
from livestock or livestock products are tested or analysed for the purposes
of determining whether they are affected with a disease or contaminant;
"veterinary surgeon" means a person registered under the Veterinary Surgeons
Act 1985 .
(2) A reference to the
health of livestock includes a reference to the livestock being free from any
disease or contaminant.
(3) If livestock stray
from one place to another as a result of the act or omission of a person, the
person will be taken to have caused the livestock to have moved between the
places.