This Regulation, consisting of 61 sections divided into six Parts and completed by one Schedule, establishes the Biosecurity National Livestock Identification System. It requires a property identification code for each specific activities, such as: abattoir; goat depot; saleyard; cattle scale operation; stock event. A cattle scale operation may have a single property identification code that relates to the primary premises of the cattle scale operation and all business operations of the cattle scale operation may rely on this property identification code. The owner and the occupier of a property on which any of the following stock are held in captivity, and the owner and the person in charge of any of the following stock held in captivity on a property, must ensure that the property has a property identification code: identifiable stock; camelids, deer or equines; small poultry; large poultry (emus or ostriches). Despite subclause(1), a person is not required to ensure that a property has a property identification code if the stock held in captivity on the property are: less than 100 small poultry, or less than 10 large poultry, or the property is a veterinary practice at which stock do not stay overnight, or the property is a veterinary laboratory and the only living stock held in captivity on the property are there to be euthanased. A property that is required to have a property identification code under this clause but not under clause 6 is taken for the purposes of this Regulation to be a farm property. The Regulation is divided as follows: Part 2 Identification codes (including Required property identification code); Part 3 Permanent identification of stock (including Identifiable stock); Part 4 Information requirements—stock transactions (including Provisions applying to all identifiable stock - Reporting and record keeping, other than pigs); Part 5 Register requirements; and Part 6 Miscellaneous provisions. The Schedule specifies the Geographical Stock identification districts.
Australie · 2017-06-02