22Closure of stock route

22 Closure of stock route (1) The Chief Inspector may close all or part of a stock route if the Chief Inspector considers it should not be used by travelling (2) The closure may be because of (but is not limited to) any of the (a) drought; (b) the destruction of pasture; (c) the need to control a notifiable disease.

Livestock Act 2008 17 (3) Notice of the closure must be published in the Gazette and a newspaper circulating in the Territory, and the closure takes effect on the later date of publication. (4) A person must not drive travelling livestock on the hoof on a part of a stock route that is closed under subsection (1). (a) intentionally drives the livestock on the hoof on that part of the stock route; and (b) is reckless in relation to the circumstance of the closure.