Western Australian Consolidated Regulations Western Australian Consolidated Regulations (1) Subject to this
regulation, an inspector has power, with respect to stock or land not then
declared to be in quarantine —
(a)
where the stock is not travelling stock, to serve on the owner of the stock or
on the owner of the land on which the stock is situated, a notice in the form
of Form No. 1 declaring the stock and the land specified in the notice to
be in quarantine; or
(b)
where the stock is travelling stock, to serve on the person who appears to be
in charge of the stock a notice declaring the stock to be in quarantine and
directing that person either to hold the stock or move the stock directly to a
place of quarantine nominated by the inspector and there to hold the stock
until it is released from quarantine or until he is subsequently directed
otherwise by an inspector,
and where an inspector
serves a notice under paragraph (a) or (b), he shall forthwith give
notice thereof to the Chief Inspector.
(1a) An
inspector —
(a)
shall exercise the power in subregulation (1) if he is of the opinion,
whether because of his own examination or because of a report by another
inspector, a veterinary surgeon or any other person who has been consulted
regarding the stock or land in question, that a disease specified in
Schedule 1 Division 1, 2 or 3 exists among that stock or on that
land;
(b) may
exercise the power in subregulation (1) if he is of the opinion, whether
because of his own examination or because of a report from any source, whether
a person consulted regarding the stock or land in question or otherwise, that
a disease specified in Schedule 1 Division 1, 2 or 3 may exist, or a
disease specified in Schedule 1 Division 4 or 5 does exist, among
that stock or on that land; and
(c) may,
with the prior approval of the Chief Inspector, exercise the power in
subregulation (1) in relation to a disease that —
(i)
affects the stock in question or is suspected by the
inspector of affecting that stock or of existing on the land in question; and
(ii)
having been investigated by a veterinary surgeon, is not
identified but appears not to be an exotic disease.
(1b) An inspector
shall not exercise the power in subregulation (1) in relation to the
existence or suspected existence, as the case may require, of a disease
specified in Schedule 1 Division 3 among any stock, or on any land,
in any part of the State declared to be an infected area under
regulation 41.
(2) The Chief
Inspector may, on receipt of a notice of a declaration under
subregulation (1)(a) or (b), cause particulars of the declaration to be
published in the Government Gazette and in any newspaper circulating in the
district in which stock or land affected by the declaration is kept or
situated.
(2a) The Chief
Inspector may, for the purpose of assisting the eradication or control of
disease, disclose the disease status of stock and whether or not a property is
under quarantine.
(3) An inspector may,
at any time he considers it is safe to do so, having regard to the control of
disease within the State, release from quarantine any stock or land and
thereupon he shall give notice of the release to the owner thereof in the form
of Form No. 2.
(4) Any stock,
howsoever coming upon land during the period that the land is declared to be
in quarantine, shall thereupon be subject to these regulations as if that
stock were the subject of a declaration under subregulation (1) or (1a).
[Regulation 11 amended in Gazette
3 Oct 1975 p. 3813‑4; 18 Feb 1977 p. 532;
22 Aug 1986 p. 3009; 19 Dec 1986 p. 4942;
16 Oct 1987 p. 3924; 4 Mar 1997 p. 1357;
14 Jun 2005 p. 2588.]