Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Livestock Disease Control Act 1994 - SECT 9C

Requirements for manufacturers of tags and devices

9C. Requirements for manufacturers of tags and devices









(1) A person must not make or sell or offer or expose for sale a tag or a
marking, branding or identification device intended for identifying livestock
for the purposes of section 9 or 9A or that is held out as being suitable for
those purposes or that contains a code allocated by the Secretary under
section 9B unless the person is authorised for the time being in writing by
the Secretary to do so.

Penalty: 60 penalty units.

(2) If a tag, mark, brand or other device intended for identifying livestock
for the purposes of section 9 or 9A has been used to tag, mark or brand or
otherwise identify individual livestock, a person must not use that tag, mark,
brand or other device to identify other livestock unless the person is
authorised for the time being in writing by the Secretary to do so.

Penalty: 60 penalty units.

(3) Subsection (2) does not apply to a tag, mark, brand or a device that does
not identify the individual livestock.