LIVESTOCK DISEASE CONTROL ACT 1994 - SECT 3 Definitions
LIVESTOCK DISEASE CONTROL ACT 1994 - SECT 3
DefinitionsS. 3(1) amended by No. 74/2000 s. 3(Sch. 1 item 73.1).
(1) In this Act—
"appropriate Minister" means the Minister administering section 19 of the Financial Management Act 1994 ;
S. 3(1) def. of approved agent inserted by No. 83/1998 s. 3(a), substituted by No. 84/2008 s. 23(1).
"approved agent" means a livestock agent registered as an approved agent under section 248A of the Duties Act 2000 ;
S. 3(1) def. of cattle amended by No. 71/2014 s. 17.
"cattle" means any bull, cow, ox, steer, heifer, calf, bison or buffalo;
S. 3(1) def. of Department inserted by No. 22/2022 s. 108(1)(a).
"Department" means Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions;
S. 3(1) def. of disease amended by No. 92/1995 s. 161(Sch. 2 item 3.1).
"disease" means—
(a) any contagious or infectious disease, or any condition to which any livestock is subject, that the Governor in Council declares from time to time to be a disease; or
(b) an exotic disease;
"domestic livestock" means any livestock in a domesticated state or under the control of humans, regardless of whether livestock of its species are categorised at common law as being of a tame or domestic nature;
S. 3(1) def. of emergency inserted by No. 48/2010 s. 15(1), amended by No. 73/2013 s. 95.
"emergency" has the same meaning as in section 3 of the Emergency Management Act 2013 ;
S. 3(1) def. of exotic disease amended by Nos 92/1995 s. 161(Sch. 2 item 3.1), 83/1998 s. 3(b).
"exotic disease" means—
(a) foot and mouth disease or rabies; or
(b) any other contagious or infectious disease, or any condition to which any livestock is subject, that the Governor in Council declares to be an exotic disease;
S. 3(1) def. of fittings amended by No. 7/2007 s. 3.
"fittings" means—
(a) any facilities or materials used for housing, restraining or confining livestock; or
(b) any hives, utensils, apparatus or implements for use in beekeeping or in handling, housing or storing honeycomb or beeswax; or
(c) halters, brushes, clothes, buckets or other articles which have been brought into contact with any livestock; or
(d) equipment or other articles—
(i) which are normally used in connection with livestock and which have been brought into contact with any livestock product; or
(ii) which are used in the processing or manufacture of livestock products and which have been brought into contact with any livestock product;
"fodder" means any food, drinking water or bedding used by or which has been brought into contact with any livestock;
S. 3(1) def. of goat inserted by No. 25/1997 s. 3(a).
"goat" means buck, doe, kid or wether;
S. 3(1) def. of GST inserted by No. 6/2000 s. 35(1).
"GST" has the same meaning as it has in the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 of the Commonwealth except that it includes notional GST of the kind for which payments may be made under Part 3 of the National Taxation Reform (Consequential Provisions) Act 2000 by a person that is a State entity within the meaning of that Act;
"hive" means any receptacle, or any component of a receptacle, which houses bees or which has housed bees;
"inspector" means an inspector of livestock appointed under this Act;
"livestock" means any non-human animal, and any fish or bird, whether wild or domesticated, egg intended for hatching or bee;
S. 3(1) def. of livestock agent inserted by No. 84/2008 s. 23(2).
"livestock agent" means a person carrying on—
(a) a business as—
(i) a stock and station agent; or
(ii) an abattoir operator; or
(iii) a feedlot operator; or
(iv) a cattle scale operator; or
(v) a calf dealer; or
(b) a business dealing with the buying or selling of livestock or the carcases of livestock;
S. 3(1) def. of livestock product amended by Nos 73/1996 s. 31, 35/2009 s. 76.
"livestock product" includes—
(a) the carcase or any portion of a carcase of any livestock;
(b) the meat, blood, hide, skin, wool, hair, horns, feathers, antlers, feet or offal of livestock;
(c) the fat, milk, whey, cream, butter, cheese, eggs or other food or foodstuffs derived from livestock;
(d) honey, beeswax, honeycomb or any other product of bees;
(e) semen, ova or embryos of livestock;
(f) the secretions, excretions, manure and other wastes of livestock;
"market value" in relation to livestock means the value of the livestock calculated as upon a sale on the place where the livestock are when ordered to be destroyed;
"owner" includes—
(a) every person other than a mortgagee not in possession having or claiming jointly or severally any right, title or interest to or in any livestock or land; and
(b) the authorised agent of the owner; and
(c) in the case of a body corporate or unincorporate, the chief executive officer or other controlling officer of the body; and
(d) the superintendent or overseer of any livestock; and
(e) the occupier, superintendent or overseer of any land upon which livestock are kept; and
(f) all persons in charge of travelling livestock;
S. 3(1) def. of pig repealed by No. 48/2010 s. 15(2).
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S. 3(1) def. of police officer inserted by No. 37/2014 s. 10(Sch. item 97.1).
"police officer" has the same meaning as in the Victoria Police Act 2013 ;
S. 3(1) def. of property identification code inserted by No. 48/2010 s. 15(1).
property identification code has the meaning set out in section 9B;
"quarantine area" means any premises, aircraft, vehicle, vessel, land, road or place ordered to be quarantined under section 110 ;
S. 3(1) def. of registered beekeeper inserted by No. 22/2022 s. 108(1)(a).
"registered beekeeper" means a person who is registered as a beekeeper under this Act;
S. 3(1) def. of registered brand inserted by No. 22/2022 s. 108(1)(a).
"registered brand" means a brand allotted to a registered beekeeper under section 48(3);
S. 3(1) def. of residual value inserted by No. 25/1997 s. 3(b).
"residual value", in relation to any livestock referred to in Part 5 which is destroyed, means any money received by the Secretary on the sale of the carcase, wool, hide or offal of the livestock;
S. 3(1) def. of Secretary amended by Nos 46/1998 s. 7(Sch. 1), 56/2003 s. 11(Sch. item 9.1), 70/2013 s. 4(Sch. 2 item 26.1), 22/2022 s. 108(1)(b).
"Secretary" means the Secretary to the Department;
S. 3(1) def. of sheep inserted by No. 25/1997 s. 3(c).
"sheep" means any ewe, hoggett, lamb, ram or wether;
S. 3(1) def. of vehicle amended by No. 29/2011 s. 3(Sch. 1 item 53).
"vehicle" includes any aircraft or vessel;
S. 3(1) def. of vendor declaration inserted by No. 48/2010 s. 15(1), substituted by No. 49/2016 s. 3, amended by No. 40/2019 s. 59.
"vendor declaration" means a declaration under section 8A(1).
S. 3(2) inserted by No. 46/1998 s. 7(Sch. 1), amended by Nos 56/2003 s. 11(Sch. item 9.2), 108/2004 s. 117(1) (Sch. 3 item 116.1), 70/2013 s. 4(Sch. 2 item 26.2), repealed by No. 22/2022 s. 108(2).
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