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Introduction of saddle, draught, or pack-horses, mules or asses, or working bullocks.

13. In the case of the introduction of saddle, draught, or pack-horses, mules or asses, and working bullocks, used bonâ fide for the purpose of riding, draught, or carrying burdens, having been once inspected, special authority may be granted by an Inspector of Stock, and continue in force until revoked by a notice from such Inspector, to enable such horses, mules, asses, or working bullocks to pass and repass without further inspection between any portions of either of the adjoining colonies and Victoria.

Cattle in trucks to be accompanied by certificate of Inspector of exporting colony.

14. No Inspector of Stock shall authorise the introduction into Victoria of any cattle in railway-trucks unless they shall be accompanied by a certificate given by an Inspector of stock of the colony from which it is proposed to introduce such cattle, that he has inspected the said cattle, and pronounces them, to the best of his belief, free from the several diseases of cattle set out in the Second Schedule hereto.

Certificate on the introduction of stock from neighbouring colonies that it is the produce of those colonies.

15. No Inspector of Stock shall authorise any stock brought by sea from any place in any of the Australasian Colonies or New Zealand, except sheep from King’s Island, in the Colony of Tasmania, to be introduced into Victoria, under the provisions of this Part of these regulations, unless the certificate of the Inspector or other officer charged with the execution of the law relating to the prevention of diseases among stock in the place whence the same are brought, that the same are the produce of such colony, or have performed a quarantine, in the case of horses, of not less than fourteen days; in the case of cattle, of not less than sixty days; in the case of dogs, of not less than six months; and in the case of other stock, of not less than ninety days therein, and been found free from disease, be produced to him, together with a certificate of the master of the vessel in which such stock are introduced indorsed thereon, that such vessel has not during the preceding six months been in any port outside the Australasian Colonies or New Zealand, or received on board stock from any place outside the Australasian Colonies or New Zealand, or from any vessel which during the six months preceding such reception has been in any port outside the Australasian Colonies or New Zealand.

Introduction of stock from neighbouring colonies not the produce of such colonies.

16. If any stock brought by sea from any of the Australasian Colonies or New Zealand be not the produce of such colony, and have not performed a quarantine therein of the duration specified in the last preceding regulation, and been pronounced free from disease, such stock, for the purpose of these regulations, shall be deemed to have been shipped at the place whence the same were originally brought.

Introduction of stock in vessels that have been recently in foreign ports or had foreign stock on board.

17. Stock arriving in Victoria in any vessel which during the preceding six months has been in any port outside the Australasian Colonies or New Zealand, or which has during the preceding six months received on board stock from any place outside the Australasian Colonies or New Zealand, or from any vessel which during the preceding six months has been in any such port, shall not be introduced into Victoria unless upon compliance with all the regulations in force as to the introduction of stock shipped at such port, so far as such regulations may be applicable.

Sheep introduced from neighbouring colonies.

18. Every sheep introduced by sea into Victoria from any place in any of the Australasian Colonies or New Zealand, except King’s Island, shall, immediately on being landed, be removed to some quarantine ground determined by the Governor in Council, or to some store or place in the City of Melbourne, of which the Chief Inspector of Stock may, by writing under his hand, approve for that purpose, and which shall be deemed a quarantine-ground; and shall be detained there until it has been dipped once, or oftener, as the Chief Inspector may direct, in the medicaments provided by the regulations under Part III. of “The Stock Diseases Act, 1890,” and until the Chief Inspector shall, by writing under his hand, authorise its removal. Notwithstanding anything contained in this regulation, sheep may be introduced into Victoria, at Melbourne, by sea from any of the Australasian Colonies or New Zealand without being quarantined or dipped, provided a certificate be produced from the Chief Inspector of Stock for the colony from whence the sheep are brought that scab has not existed in the said colony for the preceding two years, and that the importation of sheep and sheepskins from a colony in which scab exists is prohibited; also a certificate from the master of the vessel conveying the sheep that the vessel has not been in any port in any colony in which scab exists during the preceding six months.

Removal of sheep to store to be in wagons.

19. Every order of the Chief Inspector of Stock approving of any store or place as a quarantine-ground shall determine the boundaries thereof, and when any sheep is removed as aforesaid to any such store or place the same shall be so removed in some wagon or cart, and not otherwise.

Introduction of sheep from King’s Island.

Expenses to be borne by owners.

21. All expenses connected with the landing, detaining in quarantine, and dipping any such sheep, from time of the arrival of such sheep until the time the same may be destroyed or released from quarantine, including the expenses of the destruction of any such sheep as may be destroyed, and of the removal and disposition of the carcases of any such sheep as may be destroyed or die, shall be borne and paid by the owners thereof; and no Inspector of Stock shall authorise the introduction by sea of any such sheep into Victoria until some owner thereof, or some person on his behalf, has executed to the satisfaction of such Inspector a bond to the Chief Inspector of Stock, with one surety, conditioned for the due payment of all such expenses, and every such bond shall be in such penalty as such Inspector may require, and every such bond may be in the form in the Sixth Schedule hereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

REGULATIONS of the 19th day of March, 1880.
Regulations of the 13th day of June, 1881.
Regulations of the 29th day of September, 1884.
Regulations of the 28th day of April, 1885.
Regulation of the 25th day of January, 1887.
Regulation of the 8th day of March, 1887.
Regulation of the 23rd day of December, 1887.
Regulation of the 17th day of December, 1889.
Regulation of the 16th day of June, 1890.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

CATARRH, Cumberland disease, foot-and-mouth disease, glanders, small-pox in sheep, scab, pleuro-pneumonia, rinderpest, murrain, horse-mange, typhoid fever in pigs, malignant or typhoid fever in horses, tuberculosis in cattle.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

BULL, cow, ox, calf, bison, buffalo, mare, gelding, foal, stallion, ass, mule ram, ewe, wether, lamb, pig, camel, deer, antelope, goat.

FOURTH SCHEDULE.

By LAND: Albury, Delegate, Echuca, Euston, Howlong, Moama, Penola, Swan Hill, Tintralda, Tocumwall, Wagunyah, Willis, Yarrawonga, and the point at which the main road from Narracoote to Apsley intersects the boundary between Victoria and South Australia.

By Sea: The port of Melbourne.

SIXTH SCHEDULE.

Know all men by these presents that we, , of and , of , are held and firmly bound to , his executors, administrators, and assigns, in the sum of of lawful money of Great Britain, to be paid to the said , his executors, administrators, and assigns, for the due payment whereof we hereby bind ourselves, and each of us, our heirs, executors, and administrators, firmly by these presents.

Sealed with our seals.

Dated this day of , in the year of our Lord .

The condition of this obligation is such that if the said , from time to time, duly pay on demand the cost of inspection, disinfection, dressings for scab (if made use of), housing, disinfecting the vessel or conveyance in which the transhipment or conveyance to or from the quarantine-ground takes place, of certain stock, that is to say, which arrived in the Colony of Victoria, by the , on or about the day of , and all other costs and charges of every kind and sort in connection with such stock incurred or to be incurred by or on behalf of Her Majesty or by any person purporting so to act, from the arrival of such stock in Victoria until the same die or be destroyed, or sold or lawfully removed from the quarantine-ground, including, in case of death or destruction, the cost of destroying the carcases, and in case of sale the expenses of the sale, so far as such costs and charges are not covered by a sum of deposited with , Inspector of Stock, at or