33Inspectors may investigate and destroy

33 Inspectors may investigate and destroy (1) An inspector may do any of the following: (a) search for, trap and destroy vectors of disease;

Livestock Act 2008 23 (b) investigate the following: (i) the cause of a disease in livestock or other things; (ii) whether or not livestock or other things are infected; (iii) a source that is likely to cause or to have caused livestock or other things to be infected; (c) inspect or examine a thing or place for the presence of a disease or animal pathogen. (2) An inspector may take a sample of a carcass, tissue of livestock or any other thing to be tested for the presence of a disease, biological preparation, chemical or veterinary drug. (3) In exercising a power under this section, an inspector may destroy an animal or animal product only if: (a) it is necessary to do so to enable a proper diagnosis or investigation to be made; and (b) the Chief Inspector or owner of the animal or animal product consents to its destruction.