Tasmanian Consolidated Acts Tasmanian Consolidated Acts
(1) An owner of a domestic animal or other property is entitled to compensation if it is destroyed in any of the following circumstances:
(a) it dies or is destroyed as a consequence of a disease and an agreement between the State, the Commonwealth and industry specifies that compensation is payable;
(b) it is destroyed by or at the direction of an inspector for the purpose of controlling a disease (otherwise than under a Government disease control program or industrydisease control program) and –
(i) the animal or property is of a class that the regulations prescribe as animals or property in respect of which compensation will be payable; and
(ii) the regulations prescribe that disease in respect of that class of animal or property as a compensatable disease;
(c) it is destroyed under a Government disease control program and that program provides that compensation will be payable in respect of that destruction;
(d) it is destroyed under an industry disease control program and that program provides that compensation will be payable in respect of that destruction.
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), a person is not entitled to compensation for the destruction of a domestic animal or other property if the animal or property was destroyed as a consequence of a contravention of this Act.
(3) Except as provided in this section a person is not entitled to compensation in relation to the death or destruction of an animal or other property or for any loss resulting from such death or destruction.