Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Livestock Disease Control Act 1994 - SECT 79E

Payment of compensation

79E. Payment of compensation

Compensation is payable-

   (a)  to the owner of any sheep or goats destroyed by, or by order of, an
        inspector under this Act because the sheep or goats are suffering from
        or suspected of suffering from disease; or

   (b)  to the owner of any sheep or goats which are ordered to be destroyed
        by an inspector under this Act because the sheep or goats are
        suffering from or suspected of suffering from disease and which die
        before being destroyed; or

   (c)  to the owner of any sheep or goats destroyed because of injury
        suffered by the sheep or goats in the course of administration of this
        Act; or

   (d)  to the owner of any carcase of sheep or goats condemned under the
        Meat Industry Act 1993 or the Export Control Act 1982 of the
        Commonwealth at any meat processing facility by an inspector as unfit
        for human consumption because of disease.