AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

AMENDMENT TO STOCK DISEASES ORDINANCE 1933-1958.

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 13 of 1959

		It is current departmental policy to allow the sale of diseased stock where the Department can see no objection.  An example of this would occur where diseased stock is to go to an abattoir for slaughter and the particular circumstances, so far as the Department of Health is concerned, justify such a sale.

		In order to make such a practice legally sound, it is proposed to amend Section 11 of the Ordinance so as to make it illegal for any person to sell or purchase diseased stock unless the written permission of an inspector has been obtained, and unless that person observes all conditions specified in the permission.

(DONALD A. CAMERON)
MINISTER FOR HEALTH.