New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ACT 1979 - SECT 24O

24O Application and interpretation

(1) This Part applies only in relation to a stock animal depastured on rateable land (within the meaning of the Local Land Services Act 2013 ).

(2) In this Part, a reference to an animal is taken to be a reference only to a stock animal referred to in subsection (1).

(3) For the purposes of this Part, an animal is in distress if it is suffering from exposure to the elements, debility, exhaustion or significant physical injury.

(4) In this Part--

"inspector" means an inspector within the meaning of Division 2 of Part 2A.

"official warning" --see section 24P.

"Stock Welfare Panel" or
"Panel" means a Stock Welfare Panel constituted in accordance with section 24T.