Biosecurity (National Livestock Identification System) Regulation 2025
69Offences—reportable saleyard transactions
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69 Offences—reportable saleyard transactions (1) An operator of a saleyard where a reportable saleyard transaction about the transaction within the required time: (b) if the stock involved in the transaction was held by a stock and station agent before being sent to the saleyard—the agent’s agent identification code; (c) if a stock and station agent takes possession of the stock involved in the transaction—the agent’s agent identification code; (d) if the stock involved in the transaction is to be sent to a property following the transaction—the property identification code of the property; (e) if the stock involved in the transaction is sheep, goats or pigs— a copy of any NLIS movement document created for the transaction. (2) An operator of a saleyard where cattle, sheep, goats or pigs are sold must— (a) before the end of the day of the sale, make a record of the number of cattle, sheep, goats and pigs sold at the saleyard; and (b) keep the record for 2 years after the day of the sale.
Section 70 (4) In this section: required time means— (a) if the identifiable stock is cattle, and the reportable saleyard transaction is the sale of the cattle for slaughter at an abattoir— by the end of the day of the sale; or (b) in any other case—by the end of the next working day after the reportable saleyard transaction happens.