Queensland Consolidated Acts

ANIMAL CARE AND PROTECTION ACT 2001 - SECT 27A

27A Spaying cattle

(1) A person, other than a veterinary surgeon or an accredited person, must not spay cattle using the Willis dropped-ovary technique.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—300 penalty units or 1 year’s imprisonment.

(2) A person must not use vaginal spreaders to spay cattle that have not given birth.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—300 penalty units or 1 year’s imprisonment.

(3) In this section—

"accredited person" means a person accredited to perform the Willis dropped-ovary technique to spay cattle under an approved cattle procedures accreditation scheme.

"prescribed instrument" , for the Willis dropped-ovary technique, means an instrument made of stainless steel that has a flattened spearhead with a slit that—

(a) is in the forward end of the spearhead; and

(b) has a sharp edge at the end of the slit; and

(c) joins an oval hole at the other end of the slit.

"Willis dropped-ovary technique" means a technique for spaying cattle that involves dropping ovaries into the abdominal cavity by using a prescribed instrument to—

(a) enter the abdominal cavity by piercing the wall of the vagina with the instrument’s spearhead; and

(b) place each ovary, by rectal manipulation, in the oval hole in the instrument’s spearhead; and

(c) sever the ovaries with the sharp edge of the slit in the instrument’s spearhead by retracting the instrument.