Biosecurity (National Livestock Identification System) Regulation 2017
40Cattle scale operations
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40 Cattle scale operations
40 Cattle scale operations
(1) A person who delivers cattle to a cattle scale operation must provide the operator of the cattle scale operation with the delivery information in relation to the cattle.
(2) The operator of a cattle scale operation must ensure that cattle are not sold or otherwise disposed of unless the delivery information has been obtained in relation to the cattle.
(3) A person who purchases or otherwise acquires the cattle must, before the cattle leave the cattle scale operation, provide the operator of the cattle scale operation with the property identification code of the property to which the cattle are to be sent (the post-sale information).
(4) The operator of a cattle scale operation must keep in relation to the cattle a record of—
(a) the delivery information and the property identification code of the cattle scale operation for at least 7 years, and
(b) the post-sale information for at least 2 years.
(5) The operator of a cattle scale operation must ensure that, when cattle leave the cattle scale operation, the delivery information in relation to the cattle and the property identification code of the cattle scale operation are—
(a) if the property to which the cattle are to be sent is an abattoir—provided to the operator of the abattoir by the close of business on the day that the cattle leave the possession of the cattle scale operation and the owner of the abattoir must keep a record of the information for at least 7 years, or
(b) in any other case—provided to the person who has bought or taken possession of the cattle by the close of business on the day following the day that the cattle leave the cattle scale operation and the person must keep a record of the information for at least 7 years.
(6) In this clause, cattle are delivered to and leave a cattle scale operation when the cattle scale operation obtains possession of the cattle or ceases to have possession of the cattle.