75Cattle — hospital pens

75 Cattle — hospital pens

(1) There must be hospital pens equal in area to at least 1% of the pen area used for the carriage of cattle.

(2) There must be a hospital pen on each deck on which cattle are carried.

(3) However, if the pen area for the carriage of cattle on a deck is less than 500 m2, the hospital pens may be sited on an adjacent deck above or below if:

(a) they are easily accessible to cattle transferred from the other deck; and

(b) the transfer is not through a watertight opening; and

(c) the area of the hospital pens is at least 1% of the total pen area available for the carriage of cattle on all the decks they serve.

(4) AMSA may approve a hospital pen with a length and breadth not in accordance with Table 6, if no side of the pen is less than 1.5 m long.