Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Livestock Disease Control Act 1994 - SECT 44

Sewerage authority may graze cattle

44. Sewerage authority may graze cattle



(1) A sewerage authority which permits, suffers or allows any cattle which are
grazing on or are upon any land used by the sewerage authority for depositing
or spreading night-soil or sewage must not allow those cattle to be removed
from that land unless the cattle-

   (a)  have been immunised in the manner approved by the Secretary against
        the disease cysticercus bovis; or

   (b)  are immediately after being removed, destroyed or disposed of
        otherwise than for human consumption; or

   (c)  are removed for immediate slaughter at an abattoir licensed under the
        Meat Industry Act 1993 in accordance with the approval of the
        Secretary and the conditions (if any) attached to that approval; or

   (d)  have remained on the land or other land used by the sewerage authority
        for depositing or spreading night-soil or sewage from birth until
        attaining the age of 18 months; or

   (e)  are removed to land owned by the sewerage authority or another
        sewerage authority.

Penalty: 120 penalty units.

(2) A sewerage authority referred to in subsection (1) must notify the
Secretary in writing of any land under the control of that authority where
night-soil or sewage is deposited or spread and cattle are grazed or kept upon
the land.

(3) The Secretary may grant an approval for the purposes of subsection (1)(c)
if satisfied that the removal of the cattle for immediate slaughter at an
abattoir is unlikely to lead to the transmission of disease from the cattle to
humans and may impose any conditions on that approval.

(4) The Secretary must have regard to the following matters before granting an
approval under subsection (3)-

   (a)  whether the cattle have been or will be tagged, marked, branded or
        identified in accordance with this Act before being moved from the
        place where they were grazing; and

   (b)  the measures taken, or to be taken, to limit the cattle's exposure to
        infection by zoonotic organisms.

Division 3-Dairying animals