Western Australian Consolidated Acts

STOCK (IDENTIFICATION AND MOVEMENT) ACT 1970

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART I -- Preliminary  

   1.      Short title  
   2.      Commencement  
   4.      Repeals  
   5.      Interpretation  
   6.      Transitional provisions  
   6A.     Application  

   PART II -- Brands  

   7.      One brand and one earmark to be allotted for each run  
   8.      Use of brands and earmarks  
   9.      Brands and earmarks for sheep  
   10.     Brands, marks, and signs on wool of sheep to be made with approved fluid  
   11.     Additional earmarking of sheep  
   12.     Earmarking of sheep  
   13.     Brands and earmarks for cattle  
   14.     Brands for horses  
   15.     Brands for swine  
   15A.    Brands and earmarks for goats  
   15B.    Brands and earmarks for deer  
   15C.    Brands and earmarks for camelids  
   16.     Private markings for goats, sheep and cattle  
   17.     Legibility, size, and form of certain brands and earmarks  
   18.     Offences relating to branding and earmarking  

   PART III -- Registration  

   19.     Application  
   20.     Registrar, deputy registrars, and the register  
   21.     Applications for, and allocations of, brands  
   22.     Confusing or misleading brands  
   23.     Certificate of registration of brand  
   24.     Expiry of registration of ownership of brands  

   PART IV -- Transfers and cancellations  

   25.     Transfer of brands  
   26.     Ownership of brand exclusive  
   27.     Evidence  
   28.     Cancellation  
   29.     Record of transfers and cancellations  

   PART V -- Rules of branding  

   30.     Branding or earmarking cattle and branding horses  
   31.     Earmarking and branding of sheep  
   32.     Branding of swine  
   33.     Branding or earmarking goats  
   34.     Altered or defaced brands or earmarks  
   35.     Removal of unidentified stock from run  
   35A.    Branding of imported stock  
   36.     Stock already branded or earmarked  
   36A.    Identification exemption certificate for stock to be exported  
   36B.    Stock are not branded unless brand appears where prescribed  

   PART VI -- Inspectors  

   37.     Appointment and powers of Inspectors  
   38.     Offences  

   PART VII -- Straying and unbranded stock  

   39.     Proprietor may be permitted to search for straying stock  
   40.     Impounding of unidentified stock  
   41.     Detention of impounded stock  
   42.     Disposal of stock detained in public pound  
   43.     Disposal of stock impounded in private stockyard  
   44.     Owner may obtain release of impounded stock  
   45.     Purchaser of impounded stock to brand and earmark the stock  

   PART VIII -- Movement of stock  

   46.     Waybill or other prescribed document to be made out for stock being moved  
   47.     Inspection of travelling stock and waybills  
   48.     Endorsement of waybill after inspection  
   49.     Special permits for travelling stock  
   49A.    Transport of stock to be exported  
   49B.    Transport of feral horses to slaughter  
   50.     Offences  

   PART IX -- Miscellaneous  

   52.     Possession of stock not branded or earmarked as required  
   53.     Brands and earmarks not to be altered or removed  
   53A.    Marking of spayed bovine females  
   53B.    Marking of prescribed stock  
   54.     Offences relating to brands and marks  
   55.     Evidence of proprietorship  
   56.     Transfer of brands or earmarks to mortgagees  
   57.     Certificate to be prima facie proof  
   58.     Registered brand or earmark prima facie evidence of ownership  
   59.     Division of State into districts  
   60.     Offences  
   60A.    Prosecutions to be commenced within 3 years  
   61.     Penalties  
   62.     Regulations  
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