Stock Diseases Act 1923 No 34
Current version for 9 July 2010 to date (accessed 25 May 2013 at 21:06)
14 Quarantine
(1) Where land or stock are by the provisions of this Act to be
quarantined, the quarantine may be general or in respect of a particular
disease.
(2) The nature of the quarantine shall be stated in the notice, order
or notification imposing the quarantine or in the undertaking given with
respect to any land or stock under the provisions of section
11.
(3) A quarantine may be imposed or declared for a disease although the
land or stock are already in quarantine for another
disease.
(4) The course of action to be taken by the owner or occupier of land
or the owner or person in charge of stock when the land or stock is in a
quarantine area, protected area or protected (control) area or is required to
be quarantined shall be as prescribed by regulation or as ordered by an
inspector.
(4A) The regulations or orders of an inspector under subsection (4) can
extend to the course of action to be taken in respect of artificial breeding
material on the land concerned by the owner or occupier of the land or the
owner or person in charge of the artificial breeding
material.
(5) The Minister may by notification in the Gazette apply to any
specified part of a quarantine area, protected area or protected (control)
area special and more drastic provisions than those which may be operating in
the rest of the quarantine area, protected area or protected (control)
area.
(6) The Minister may by a like notification direct that any or all
stock within a quarantine area, protected area or protected (control) area or
within some specified part of a quarantine area, protected area or protected
(control) area shall be treated by prophylactic or curative methods for the
disease or suspected disease in respect of which the quarantine is imposed or
the protected area or the protected (control) area is declared, whether the
stock are diseased or infected or not, and in any such notification the
Minister may also direct that any or all of such stock shall be submitted, at
a specified time or at specified intervals, to any specified test or tests for
any disease or suspected disease.