Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) The Governor may
make regulations prescribing all matters that are —
(a)
required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or
(b)
necessary or convenient to be prescribed for giving effect to the objects of
this Act.
(2) In particular, the
regulations may make provision —
(a) as
to the form of any order, notice, or other document that is to be used for the
purposes of this Act;
(b) as
to the regulation of the movement, sale or disposal of animals or animal
products suspected of infection;
(c)
prohibiting or restricting the movement of animals, vehicles and other
potential carriers of disease until —
(i)
a diagnosis of a disease is made or the existence of a
disease is disproved;
(ii)
where a disease is diagnosed, a specified period has
elapsed; or
(iii)
disinfected, or treated against infection, in a
prescribed manner;
(d)
requiring persons suspected to have been in contact with an infected animal or
animal product, or within an infected area, to submit themselves for
disinfection or prescribed treatment;
(e)
authorising the closing of roads, the erection of barriers and other measures
controlling movement to prevent the spread of infection;
(f)
prohibiting the treatment of infected animals otherwise than by prescribed
persons;
(g) for
the disposal of animals, and any other matter, infected or suspected of being
infected;
(h) as
to the exercise of the power to requisition and as to the payment of
compensation for requisitioning;
(i)
prescribing procedures for the assessment of
compensation, and for the valuation of domesticated animals or property
destroyed;
(j) as
to the powers and duties of particular officers or other persons engaged in
the administration of this Act; and
(k)
prescribing penalties, not exceeding a fine of $5 000, for offences
against the regulations.
(3) The powers
conferred by section 10 of the Stock Diseases (Regulations) Act 1968
for the making of regulations with respect to enzootic disease may be
exercised under this section with respect to exotic disease as though the
provisions of that section were repeated in this section but with
respect to exotic disease.