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EXOTIC DISEASES OF ANIMALS ACT 1993
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Long Title
PART 1 -- Preliminary
1. Short title
2. Commencement
3. Objects of Act
4. Terms used, and application to certain diseases
5. Crown bound
6. Application of this Act to land, animals etc.
PART 2 -- Prevention, control and eradication of exotic diseases
Division 1 -- Suspicion of infection
7. Suspicion of infection
Division 2 -- Obligations of persons
8. Notification
9. Quarantine
10. Possession or administration of exotic disease agents
Division 3 -- Duties and powers of officers
11. Duties of an officer
12. Identity cards
13. General powers of an officer
14. Requirements under Act and recovery of costs and expenses
15. Payment for requested assistance, and for care of animals that can not be moved
16. Search warrants
17. Power to obtain information
18. Offences relating to officers
Division 4 -- Local quarantine
19. Local quarantine order
20. Notice of local quarantine order
21. Duration of local quarantine orders
22. Contravention of local quarantine order
Division 5 -- Disinfection
23. Disinfection orders
Division 6 -- Prohibition of importation
24. Imports prohibited or restricted
25. Duration of import restriction orders
26. Contravention of import restriction order
PART 3 -- Seizure and destruction
Division 1 -- Seizure
27. Seizure for unauthorised movement, or to prevent risk of infection
Division 2 -- Destruction
28. Destruction
Division 3 -- Stock on Crown land
28A. Control of stock on Crown land in proclaimed areas
PART 4 -- Orders as to infected areas, restricted areas and controlled areas
Division 1 -- Infected areas and infected vehicles
29. Declaration of infected area
30. Declaration of infected vehicle
31. Duration of declarations as to infection
32. Movement within, and entry or exit, subject to permit only
33. Entry to and exit from infected areas
Division 2 -- Restricted areas
34. Declaration of restricted areas
35. Duration of declaration of restricted area
36. Variation of boundaries
37. Movement within, and entry or exit, subject to permit only
38. Entry to and exit from restricted areas
39. Restricted area precautions order
Division 3 -- Controlled areas and control orders
40. Declaration of controlled area
PART 5 -- Exotic disease control, generally
41. Disease control orders
42. Protection of Minister, officers and persons assisting
43. Posting of signs warning of disease control measures
PART 6 -- Administration
Division 1 -- The Account
44. Account
45. Credits to Account
46. Payments from Account
Division 2 -- Compensation
47. Compensation for destruction of animals payable only in relation to certain diseases
48. Term used: property
49. Compensation
50. Amount of compensation
51. Claims
52. Reduction of amount claimed for destruction of an animal or property
53. Settlement
Division 3 -- Administration
54. Chief Veterinary Officer, and Veterinary Inspectors
55. Officers
56. Delegation
Division 4 -- Offences by bodies corporate
57. Penalties for bodies corporate
58. Liability of officers for offence by body corporate
Division 5 -- General
59. Repeal, saving and transitional
60. Regulations
Other notes
Defined terms
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