Western Australian Consolidated Acts

STOCK (IDENTIFICATION AND MOVEMENT) ACT 1970 - NOTES

Notes

¹ This is a compilation of the Stock (Identification and Movement) Act 1970 and includes the amendments made by the other written laws referred to in the following table ^1a. The table also contains information about any reprint.

Compilation table

Short title	Number and year	Assent	Commencement
Stock (Brands and Movement) Act 1970 2	116 of 1970	10 Dec 1970	1 Jul 1972 (see s. 2 and Gazette 30 Jun 1972 p. 2101)
Stock (Brands and Movement) Act Amendment Act 1972	75 of 1972	16 Nov 1972	1 Oct 1973 (see s. 2 and Gazette 14 Sep 1973 p. 3438)
Metric Conversion Act 1972	94 of 1972 (as amended by No. 19 and 83 of 1973, 42 of 1975)	4 Dec 1972	Relevant amendments (see Third Sch.3) took effect on 22 Mar 1974 (see s. 4(2) and Gazette 22 Mar 1974 p. 966)
Reprint of the Stock (Brands and Movement) Act 1970 approved 12 May 1977 (includes amendments listed above)
Stock (Brands and Movement) Act Amendment Act 1978	42 of 1978	29 Aug 1978	s. 4, 6 and 10: 22 Dec 1978 (see s. 2 and Gazette 22 Dec 1978 p. 4772); balance: 20 Nov 1981 (see s. 2 and Gazette 20 Nov 1981 p. 4718)
Stock (Brands and Movement) Act Amendment Act 1979	30 of 1979	3 Oct 1979	7 Dec 1979 (see s. 2 and Gazette 7 Dec 1979 p. 3771)
Stock (Brands and Movement) Amendment Act 1980	9 of 1980	8 Oct 1980	8 Oct 1980
Stock (Brands and Movement) Amendment Act 1984	65 of 1984	5 Nov 1984	s. 15: 1 May 1986 (see s. 2 and Gazette 17 Jan 1986 p. 182); balance: 1 Feb 1986 (see s. 2 and Gazette 17 Jan 1986 p. 182)
Stock (Brands and Movement) Amendment Act (No. 2) 1984	91 of 1984	29 Nov 1984	27 Dec 1984
Reprint of the Stock (Brands and Movement) Act 1970 as at 16 Jul 1986 (includes amendments listed above)
Agricultural Legislation (Penalties) Amendment Act 1989 s. 3	20 of 1989	1 Dec 1989	15 Dec 1989 (see s. 2 and Gazette 15 Dec 1989 p. 4513)
Stock (Brands and Movement) Amendment Act 1992	57 of 1992	11 Dec 1992	8 Jan 1993
Financial Administration Legislation Amendment Act 1993 s. 11	6 of 1993	27 Aug 1993	Deemed operative 1 Jul 1993 (see s. 2(1))
Stock (Brands and Movement) Amendment Act 1994	46 of 1994	27 Sep 1994	17 May 1995 (see s. 2 and Gazette 16 May 1995 p. 1839)
Statutes (Repeals and Minor Amendments) Act 1994 s. 4	73 of 1994	9 Dec 1994	9 Dec 1994 (see s. 2)
Reprint of the Stock (Identification and Movement) Act 1970 as at 8 Jun 1995 (includes amendments listed above)
Local Government (Consequential Amendments) Act 1996 s. 4	14 of 1996	28 Jun 1996	1 Jul 1996 (see s. 2)
Financial Legislation Amendment Act 1996 s. 64	49 of 1996	25 Oct 1996	25 Oct 1996 (see s. 2(1))
Acts Amendment (Land Administration) Act 1997 Pt. 56	31 of 1997	3 Oct 1997	30 Mar 1998 (see s. 2 and Gazette 27 Mar 1998 p. 1765)
Statutes (Repeals and Minor Amendments) Act 1997 s. 114	57 of 1997	15 Dec 1997	15 Dec 1997 (see s. 2(1))
Dairy Industry and Herd Improvement Legislation Repeal Act 2000 s. 21	25 of 2000	5 Jul 2000	14 Jul 2000 (see s. 2(2) and Gazette 14 Jul 2000 p. 3841)
Reprint of the Stock (Brands and Movement) Act 1970 as at 7 Dec 2001 (includes amendments listed above)
Courts Legislation Amendment and Repeal Act 2004 s. 141	59 of 2004	23 Nov 2004	1 May 2005 (see s. 2 and Gazette 31 Dec 2004 p. 7128)
Criminal Procedure and Appeals (Consequential and Other Provisions) Act 2004 s. 82	84 of 2004	16 Dec 2004	2 May 2005 (see s. 2 and Gazette 31 Dec 2004 p. 7129 (correction in Gazette 7 Jan 2005 p. 53))
Financial Legislation Amendment and Repeal Act 2006 s. 4	77 of 2006	21 Dec 2006	1 Feb 2007 (see s. 2(1) and Gazette 19 Jan 2007 p. 137)
Police Amendment Act 2009 s. 24	42 of 2009	3 Dec 2009	13 Mar 2010 (see s. 2(b) and Gazette 12 Mar 2010 p. 941)

^1a On the date as at which this compilation was prepared, provisions referred to in the following table had not come into operation and were therefore not included in this compilation. For the text of the provisions see the endnotes referred to in the table.

Provisions that have not come into operation

Short title	Number and year	Assent	Commencement
Biosecurity and Agriculture Management (Repeal and Consequential Provisions) Act 2007 s. 79 and 81 4	24 of 2007	12 Oct 2007	To be proclaimed (s. 2(2))

² Now known as the Stock (Identification and Movement) Act 1970; short title changed (see note under s. 1).

³ The Third Schedule was inserted by the Metric Conversion Act Amendment Act (No. 2) 1973.

⁴ On the date as at which this compilation was prepared, the Biosecurity and Agriculture Management (Repeal and Consequential Provisions) Act 2007 s. 79 and 81 had not come into operation. They read as follows:

“

79. Repeal

The Stock (Identification and Movement) Act 1970 is repealed.

Subdivision 2 — Transitional provision

81. Brands

(1) In this section —

commencement day means the day on which section 79 comes into operation;

repealed Act means the Stock (Identification and Movement) Act 1970.

(2) Any stock that was, immediately before the commencement day, duly branded with a brand registered under the repealed Act, is, for the purposes of the BAM Act, to be taken to be duly identified with an identifier under the BAM Act.

(3) If a person was, immediately before the commencement day, the registered owner of a brand registered under the repealed Act —

(a) that brand is to be regarded, for the purposes of the BAM Act, as a registered identifier; and

(b) that person is to be regarded, for the purposes of the BAM Act, as the registered owner of that identifier.

(4) Subsections (2) and (3) apply, with such modifications and adaptations as are necessary, to earmarks registered under the repealed Act.

(5) A registration referred to in this section, unless sooner cancelled or re-registered under the BAM Act, expires 5 years after the date of registration or re-registration, as the case may be, under the repealed Act.

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