Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Livestock Disease Control Act 1994 - SECT 74

Amount of compensation

74. Amount of compensation



(1) The amount of compensation payable for cattle which are destroyed or
which, after being ordered to be destroyed, die before being destroyed must be
calculated in accordance with any criteria or method fixed by Order of the
Governor in Council with respect to any disease or class of disease or any
cattle or class of cattle that is specified in the Order whether after
destruction or death the cattle are found to be free from disease or not.

(2) The amount of compensation payable for any one head of cattle must not
exceed any amount that is fixed from time to time by Order of the Governor in
Council.

(3) The amount of compensation payable for cattle which have reached the
clinical stage of any disease specified by Order of the Governor in Council
must not exceed the level or rate of compensation fixed from time to time by
Order of the Governor in Council.

(4) The amount of compensation payable for any diseased carcase or portion of
a diseased carcase condemned as unfit for human consumption because of disease
must be in accordance with the scale of amounts of compensation for those
carcases fixed from time to time by Order of the Governor in Council.