44Water corporation may graze cattle

44 Water corporation may graze cattle

S. 44(1) amended by No. 22/2022 s. 114(2)(a)(b).

(1) A water corporation which permits, suffers or allows any cattle which are grazing on or are upon any land used by the water corporation for depositing or spreading sewage or sewage treatment products must not allow those cattle to be removed from that land unless the cattle—

S. 44(1)(a) amended by No. 22/2022 s. 114(2)(c).

(a) have been immunised in the manner approved by the Secretary against the disease Cysticercus bovis; or

(b) are immediately after being removed, destroyed or disposed of otherwise than for human consumption; or

S. 44(1)(c) amended by No. 89/2001 s. 12(1).

(c) are removed for immediate slaughter at an abattoir licensed under the Meat Industry Act 1993 in accordance with the approval of the Secretary and the conditions (if any) attached to that approval; or

S. 44(1)(d) amended by No. 22/2022 s. 114(2)(a)(b).

(d) have remained on the land or other land used by the water corporation for depositing or spreading sewage or sewage treatment products from birth until attaining the age of 18 months; or

S. 44(1)(e) amended by No. 22/2022 s. 114(2)(a).

(e) are removed to land owned by the water corporation or another water corporation.

S. 44(2) substituted by No. 22/2022 s. 114(3).

(2) A water corporation referred to in subsection (1) must notify the Secretary in writing of any land under the control of that corporation where sewage or sewage treatment products are deposited or spread and cattle are grazed or kept on the land.

S. 44(3) inserted by No. 89/2001 s. 12(2).

(3) The Secretary may grant an approval for the purposes of subsection (1)(c) if satisfied that the removal of the cattle for immediate slaughter at an abattoir is unlikely to lead to the transmission of disease from the cattle to humans and may impose any conditions on that approval.

S. 44(4) inserted by No. 89/2001 s. 12(2).

(4) The Secretary must have regard to the following matters before granting an approval under subsection (3)—

(a) whether the cattle have been or will be tagged, marked, branded or identified in accordance with this Act before being moved from the place where they were grazing; and

(b) the measures taken, or to be taken, to limit the cattle's exposure to infection by zoonotic organisms.

S. 44A inserted by No. 22/2022 s. 115.