Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Livestock Disease Control Act 1994 - SECT 79D

Amount of compensation

79D. Amount of compensation



(1) The amount of compensation payable for sheep or goats 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 sheep or goats or class of sheep or
goats specified in the Order whether after destruction or death they are found
to be free from disease or not.

(2) The amount of compensation payable for any one head of sheep or goat 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 sheep or goats which have reached
the clinical stage of disease specified by Order 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 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.