43No cattle or pigs on sewage land

43 No cattle or pigs on sewage land

S. 43(1) amended by Nos 35/2009 s. 89, 22/2022 s. 113(a).

(1) The owner or occupier of any land used for depositing or spreading sewage or sewage treatment products must not permit, suffer or allow any cattle or pigs to graze on or be upon that land.

S. 43(2) amended by Nos 89/2001 s. 11(1), 35/2009 s. 89, 22/2022 s. 113(b).

(2) A person must not permit, suffer or allow any cattle or pig to be fed with any pasture or crops grown on land on which sewage or sewage treatment products have been deposited or spread except in accordance with the approval of the Secretary and the conditions (if any) attached to that approval.

S. 43(2A) inserted by No. 60/2012 s. 19(1), amended by No. 22/2022 s. 113(c).

(2A) The owner of cattle or pigs must not permit, suffer or allow the cattle or pigs to be provided with, or given access to, recycled water obtained from a water corporation.

S. 43(3) amended by No. 22/2022 s. 113(c).

(3) Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply to a water corporation which permits, suffers or allows any cattle to graze on land, or to be fed with pasture or crops grown on land, owned or occupied by the water corporation.

S. 43(3A) inserted by No. 60/2012 s. 19(2), amended by No. 22/2022 s. 113(c).

(3A) Subsection (2A) does not apply to a water corporation which permits, suffers or allows any cattle on land owned or occupied by the water corporation to be provided with, or given access to, recycled water obtained from the water corporation.

S. 43(4) amended by No. 60/2012 s. 19(3)(c).

(4) Any cattle or pig, may for the purposes of this Act, be reasonably suspected of being infected with a disease if the cattle or pig—

S. 43(4)(a) amended by No. 22/2022 s. 113(d)(i).

(a) has been allowed to graze on or be on land on which sewage or sewage treatment products have been deposited or spread; or

S. 43(4)(b) amended by No. 60/2012 s. 19(3)(a).

(b) has been fed with any pasture or crops grown on that land; or

S. 43(4)(c) inserted by No. 60/2012 s. 19(3)(b), amended by No. 22/2022 s. 133(d)(ii).

(c) has been provided with, or given access to, recycled water obtained from a water corporation—

contrary to subsection (1), (2) or (2A).

S. 43(5) inserted by No. 89/2001 s. 11(2).

(5) The Secretary may grant an approval for the purposes of subsection (2) if satisfied that the feeding of the crops or pasture is unlikely to lead to the transmission of disease from the livestock to humans and may impose any conditions on that approval.