94Owner of livestock to forward movement information to Secretary

94 Owner of livestock to forward movement information to Secretary

(1) An owner of any cattle, pig, sheep or goat must not dispatch, or allow the dispatch of the cattle, pig, sheep or goat from a property unless the property identification code identifying the property has, before the dispatch, been forwarded to the Secretary or person nominated by the Secretary in the required manner or by the required method of transmission as the property on which the cattle, pig, sheep or goat is kept.

(2) An owner of any cattle, pig, sheep or goat introduced to a property must—

(a) record in the specified manner the cattle movement information, pig movement information or sheep or goat movement information for the cattle, pig, sheep or goat (as the case requires); and

(b) forward the information recorded under paragraph (a) to the Secretary or a person nominated by the Secretary, in the required manner or by the required method of transmission—

(i) within 2 days after the introduction of the cattle, pig, sheep or goat; or

(ii) if the cattle, pig, sheep or goat is removed from the property earlier than 2 days after introduction, before that removal.

(3) Subregulation (2) does not apply if the cattle, pig, sheep or goat was dispatched directly to the property from a scale operation, saleyard or a public auction.

(4) In this regulation, property does not include—

(a) a property on which an agricultural show or exhibition is or is to be conducted; or

(b) a property within the meaning of regulation 98 from which the cattle, sheep or goat is scheduled to be dispatched directly to an abattoir within 7 days after being introduced to the property.

Reg. 95 substituted by S.R. No. 118/2018 reg. 40.