Tasmanian Consolidated Acts Tasmanian Consolidated Acts
(1) An organisation or a body representing the interests of an animal industry or a number of animal industries may prepare a program for the purpose of controlling a disease.
(2) A program prepared under subsection (1) must contain the following details:
(a) the name of the organisation or body that prepared the program;
(b) the disease which the program is to control;
(c) the classes of animals which the program will affect;
(d) the composition of the management committee that will be responsible for implementing the program;
(e) the objectives of the program;
(f) the strategies and methods to be applied under the program to control the disease to which the program relates;
(g) how the costs of implementing the program will be met;
(h) the likely duration of the program;
(i) the manner in which the effectiveness of the program will be monitored;
(j) the persons or classes of persons who will be able to exercise powers in relation to the control of the disease to which the program relates;
(k) the powers the persons specified under paragraph (j) will be able to exercise;
(l) whether compensation for losses incurred as a direct result of the program will be payable and, if so, the basis for determining the amount of compensation payable and who is to pay the compensation;
(m) how any proceeds obtained from the implementation of the program will be disposed of;
(n) the extent to which owners of animals or other things affected by the implementation of the program will be required to take action under the program.
(3) Without limiting the matters that may be provided for in a program prepared under subsection (1), a program may provide for any one or more of the following matters:
(a) the identification, examination and testing of animals, animal materials, soil, water, buildings, conveyances and other things;
(b) the vaccination of animals;
(c) the treatment of animals, animal materials, soil, water, buildings, conveyances and other things;
(d) the destruction or other disposal of infected animals, animal materials, soil, water, buildings, conveyances and other things if necessary to control the disease;
(e) the taking of measures to –
(i) reduce the number of animals in or eradicate a class of feral animal; or
(ii) restrict a class of feral animal to a particular area;
(f) if the Minister has first consulted with the Minister responsible for the administration of the Nature Conservation Act 2002, the taking of measures to–
(i) reduce the number of animals in or eradicate a class of wild animal; or
(ii) restrict a class of wild animal to a particular area.
(4) Nothing in this section is to be taken as entitling an industry disease control program to provide for the taking of measures that may result in the eradication of an entire species of wild animal.