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Livestock Disease Control Regulations 2017
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90 Auctioneer or selling agent of pigs, sheep or goats at a saleyard to record and forward information
A person who conducts a public auction or sale of pigs, sheep or goats at a saleyard must—
(a) scan the sheep and goats; and
(b) record in the specified manner—
(i) the pig movement information, for every lot of pigs sold or passed in; and
(ii) the sheep or goat movement information, for every lot of sheep or goats sold or passed in; and
(c) for every lot of pigs, sheep or goats sold or passed in, provide to the operator of the saleyard in the required manner—
(i) the pig movement information or the sheep or goat movement information (as the case requires) (other than the property identification code identifying the property to which the pigs, sheep or goats will be dispatched) before the pigs, sheep or goats leave the saleyard; and
(ii) the property identification code identifying the property to which the pigs, sheep or goats will be dispatched (if provided by the purchaser or owner) by midday on the next day after the pigs, sheep or goats are sold or passed in; and
(d) in the case of pigs, sheep or goats purchased by the operator of an abattoir or knackery, provide the following information to the purchaser, in the required manner, by midnight on the day of sale, and keep a record of the provision of that information for one year—
(ii) the property identification code identifying the property from which the pigs, sheep or goats were dispatched;
(iii) the property identification code identifying the property to which the pigs, sheep or goats will be dispatched;
(iv) the property identification code identifying the saleyard;
(v) the serial number on any vendor declaration form accompanying the pigs, sheep or goats;
(vi) the number of pigs, sheep or goats in the sale lot;
(vii) whether the pigs, sheep or goats are vendor bred, and if not, the period of time that the pigs, sheep or goats were kept on the property from which they were dispatched;
Reg. 90(d)(viii) substituted by S.R. No. 5/2024 reg. 60.
(viii) in the case of sheep or goats that are identified by means of NLIS ear tags in accordance with the requirements set out in regulation 38(c), the property identification codes on the NLIS ear tags;
(ix) for every sheep or goat identified with a NLIS device, the first 8 visually readable characters on the NLIS device if it is not identifying the property from which the sheep or goat was dispatched.
Reg. 91 substituted by S.R. No. 118/2018 reg. 36.