Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts In this Act, unless
the contrary intention appears —
alpaca means any male or female alpaca;
brand means the impression of any letter, sign or
character branded upon any stock, including any woolbrand, firebrand,
freezebrand, tattoomark, eartag and any other identifying device approved by
the Registrar for use as a brand, but does not include a registered earmark or
any age mark, cullmark, flock reference mark, private reference mark, or any
mark used in connection with the control of stock diseases;
Breed Society means a body that carries out the
registration of a particular breed or strain of stock and that is recognized
as such by the Royal Agricultural Society of Western Australia Incorporated;
buffalo means any buffalo bull, cow, ox, heifer,
steer or calf;
camelid means any alpaca, llama or vicuna;
cattle means any bull, cow, ox, heifer, steer or
calf;
cullmark means a mark other than a registered
brand or a Breed Society mark, which may be placed on sheep or cattle by the
owner when culling out or otherwise identifying, other than by means of a
registered brand, the sheep or cattle;
deer means any stag, buck, hind, doe, spiker, fawn
or rig;
Director means the person holding or acting in the
office of Director General of Agriculture;
drover means a person driving or carrying stock or
in possession or charge of any travelling stock, and carrier has a
corresponding meaning;
goat means any male or female goat and includes a
sterilized goat;
horse means any stallion, horse, mare, gelding,
colt, filly, ass or mule;
Inspector means an Inspector of brands appointed
under this Act;
lamb means a sheep that has not cut its first 2
permanent incisor teeth;
legible means capable of being read and accurately
interpreted by an Inspector or police officer;
llama means any male or female llama;
owner , in relation to a registered brand, means a
person who is registered as being the owner, whether jointly or severally, of
any brand registered under this Act, and includes an authorised agent of or
manager appointed by, such an owner; and owner , in relation to a registered
earmark, has a corresponding meaning;
proprietor , in relation to any stock, means any
person who is the owner or proprietor, either jointly or severally, of the
stock, and includes an authorised agent of, or manager appointed by, such an
owner or proprietor;
register means the register of brands and earmarks
kept pursuant to section 20;
registered earmark means the impression of any
earmark in the form of a symbol or symbols that is or are registered as an
earmark for goats, cattle or sheep pursuant to this Act;
Registrar means the Registrar of brands appointed
under this Act;
run means any station, farm, freehold or leasehold
property, or any place where stock are kept, or have been kept or depastured;
sheep means any ram, ewe, wether or lamb;
stock means any horse, cattle, sheep, swine, goat,
buffalo, deer or camelid, or any animal prescribed to be stock under
section 62(1a);
stud , used in reference to stock, means any breed
or strain thereof which is registered in any recognized herd, stud or flock
book, maintained by a Breed Society whose rules require identification of
individual animals, and includes any Merino sheep stud;
swine means any pig, boar, sow, gilt or barrow;
travelling stock means any stock being transported
or moved from a run to any place by any means;
the repealed Act means the Brands Act 1904 ;
vicuna means any male or female vicuna;
waybill means a waybill which complies with the
requirements of Part VIII.
[Section 5 amended by No. 42 of 1978
s. 3; No. 30 of 1979 s. 3; No. 65 of 1984 s. 4;
No. 46 of 1994 s. 5; No. 42 of 2009 s. 24(2) and (3).]