Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) The Governor may,
after consultation with the Authority, make regulations prescribing all
matters that are by this Act required or permitted to be prescribed or which
are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for giving effect to or achieving
the objects of this Act and facilitating the exercise by the Authority of its
powers, functions and duties under this Act and in
particular —
(a)
prescribing the powers and duties of inspectors;
(b)
regulating the operations conducted at saleyards, abattoirs and processing
works, and the fees and charges payable under this Act in relation to the
regulation of, or in respect of any approval sought for, those operations;
(c)
prescribing duties imposed on persons bringing or causing to be brought into
the State the carcases of prescribed animals and declared animals for the
purposes of sale for human consumption in the State;
(d)
regulating the branding of carcases of, or meat from, prescribed animals and
declared animals —
(i)
brought into the State for the purpose of human
consumption in the State;
(ii)
subjected, whether before or after slaughter, to some
specialized treatment intended to affect quality; or
(iii)
generally;
(e)
prescribing brands, including the names of brands;
(f)
regulating the grant of authority to manufacture, or to use, branding devices;
(g)
prescribing bases of description and definition and methods of measurement of
carcases for the purpose of determining payment for carcases;
(h)
providing for the making of returns and the supply of information to the
Authority by owners of abattoirs;
(i)
providing that contravention or failure to comply with a
regulation constitutes an offence and prescribing a penalty not exceeding a
fine of $5 000 for any offence against the regulations.
(2) Regulations may be
made under this section —
(a) so
as to apply —
(i)
generally or in a particular class of case or in
particular classes of cases;
(ii)
throughout the State or in a specified part or parts of
the State;
(b) so
as to require a matter affected by them to be —
(i)
in accordance with a specified standard or specified
requirement; or
(ii)
as approved by, or to the satisfaction of, a specified
person or body or a specified class of person or body;
(c) so
as to confer on a specified person or body or a specified class of person or
body a discretionary authority; and
(d) so
as to provide that, in specified cases or in a specified class of cases,
either subject to specified conditions or unconditionally, persons or things
of a class or classes may be exempted from the provisions of the regulations,
either wholly or to such extent as is specified.
(3) In
subsection (2), specified means specified in the regulations.
[Section 27 inserted by No. 32 of 1982
s. 9 (as amended by No. 7 of 1984 s. 8); amended by No. 20
of 1989 s. 3; No. 32 of 1993 s. 25.]