Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Livestock Disease Control Act 1994 - SECT 43

No cattle or pigs on sewage land

43. No cattle or pigs on sewage land



(1) The owner or occupier of any land used for depositing or spreading
night-soil or sewage must not permit, suffer or allow any cattle or pigs to
graze on or be upon that land.

Penalty: 120 penalty units.

(2) A person must not permit, suffer or allow any cattle or pig to be fed with
any pasture or crops grown on land on which sewage or night-soil has been
deposited or spread except in accordance with the approval of the Secretary
and the conditions (if any) attached to that approval.

Penalty: 120 penalty units.

(3) Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply to a sewerage authority which
permits, suffers or allows any cattle to graze on land, or to be fed with
pasture or crops grown on land, owned or occupied by the sewerage authority.

(4) Any cattle or pig, may for the purposes of this Act, be reasonably
suspected of being infected with a disease if the cattle or pig-

   (a)  has been allowed to graze on or be on land on which sewage or
        night-soil has been deposited or spread; or

   (b)  has been fed with any pasture or crops grown on that land-

contrary to subsection (1) or (2).

(5) The Secretary may grant an approval for the purposes of subsection (2) if
satisfied that the feeding of the crops or pasture is unlikely to lead to the
transmission of disease from the livestock to humans and may impose any
conditions on that approval.

(6) The Secretary must have regard to the following matters before granting an
approval under subsection (2)-

   (a)  the purpose or intended use of the cattle or pigs to be fed the
        pasture or crops; and





   (b)  whether the cattle or pigs will be tagged, marked, branded or
        identified in accordance with this Act before being moved from the
        place where they were fed the pasture or crops; and

   (c)  the measures taken, or to be taken, to limit the movement of the
        cattle or pigs; and

   (d)  the measures taken, or to be taken, to limit the exposure of the
        cattle or pigs to infection by zoonotic organisms.