23Prescribed rate of travel

23 Prescribed rate of travel (1) The regulations may prescribe a rate of travel for specified travelling livestock being driven on the hoof on a stock route (specified travelling livestock). (2) A person in charge of specified travelling livestock commits an offence if the person does not move the livestock towards their destination at the rate of travel prescribed for the livestock. Fault element: The person knows or ought to know the livestock are not moving at the prescribed rate of travel. (3) Subsection (2) does not apply if the person has authorisation from the Registrar, in accordance with the regulations, to move the livestock at a slower rate of travel than is prescribed.