1 Name of Act and commencement
(1) This Act may be cited as the Stock Foods Act 1940.(2) This Act shall commence on a day to be appointed by the Governor and notified by proclamation published in the Gazette.
In this Act:Agvet Code means the Agvet Code of New South Wales.
Agvet Regulations means the Agvet Regulations of New South Wales.
analyst means a person authorised under section 20 to be an analyst for the purposes of this Act.
animal has the same meaning as in the Agvet Code.
block or lick has the same meaning as in the Agvet Regulations.
Director-General means the Director-General of the Department of Industry and Investment.
food-producing species has the same meaning as in the Agvet Code.
foreign ingredient means any substance, or other thing, that is declared by the regulations to be a foreign ingredient.
inspector means a person authorised under section 20 to be an inspector for the purposes of this Act.
medicated stock food has the same meaning as medicated stockfood in the Agvet Regulations.
package includes anything in which a stock food or stock food supplement is cased, covered, enclosed, contained or packed.
premix has the same meaning as in the Agvet Regulations.
stock means any animal that is prescribed by the regulations as stock for the purposes of this Act.
stock food has the same meaning as stockfood in the Agvet Regulations and also includes any block, lick, premix, stockfood supplement and any substance prescribed by the regulations as stock food, but does not include any stock medicine and does not include any substance that is intended to be fed to animals other than stock or any substance prescribed by the regulations as not being a stock food.
stock medicine means a stock medicine registered under the Stock Medicines Act 1989.
stockfood supplement has the same meaning as in the Agvet Regulations.
supply has the same meaning as in the Agvet Code.
veterinary chemical product has the same meaning as in the Agvet Code.