Western Australian Consolidated Acts

EXOTIC DISEASES OF ANIMALS ACT 1993 - SECT 19

19 .         Local quarantine order

        (1)         An officer who suspects that it is necessary to do so for the purpose of preventing the spread of an exotic disease may require, by an order (in this Act referred to as a local quarantine order ) given, either verbally or in writing, to the owner, or person in apparent charge or control, of it, that any land, place, premises or vehicle specified in that order be quarantined and kept secure so as to prohibit or restrict the movement of any animal, animal product, fodder or fittings into, within or from that land, place, premises or vehicle.

        (2)         Where a local quarantine order affects land, or any place, or premises, the order may prohibit or restrict the movement of any vehicle onto, on or from the land, place or premises.

        (3)         A local quarantine order may prohibit or restrict the movement of any receptacle or other thing suspected of being capable of carrying an exotic disease agent, and which is of a kind specified in the order, within or from the land, place, premises or vehicle affected by the order.