South Australian Consolidated Regulations South Australian Consolidated Regulations8—Use of certain other electrical devices
(1) For the purposes
of section 15 of the Act, a person must not—
(a)
place on an animal a collar designed to impart an electric shock; or
(b)
subject to these regulations, apply an electrical prod or goad to an animal.
(2) A person may only
apply an electrical prod or goad (whether or not switched on) to an animal in
the following circumstances:
(a) if
the animal is to be used or is being used in a rodeo event and the prod or
goad complies with, and is applied to the animal in accordance with, Part 3A;
(b) in
any other case—
(i)
the animal is a prescribed animal; and
(ii)
the prod or goad is not applied to the face, udders or
genitals of the animal; and
(iii)
the prod or goad is applied as sparingly as possible and
(in any event) with restraint.
(3) In this
regulation—
"prescribed animal" means—
(a) an
animal of the genus Bos or Bubalus ; or
(b) an
animal of the genus Sus (other than a pig that is being kept in the course of
the business of a piggery).