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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 115

Regulations under the Stock Act, 1908, for the Prevention of the Introduction into New Zealand of Diseases affecting Stock.—Notice No. 1803.

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LIVERPOOL, Governor
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this fourth day of October, 1915.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by the Stock Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the Orders in Council specified in the First Schedule hereto, and doth hereby make the following general regulations under the said Act for the prevention of the introduction into the Dominion of disease as defined in the said Act; and it is hereby declared that these regulations shall come into force on the date of publication of this Order in the New Zealand Gazette.

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REGULATIONS.

1. IN these regulations, if not inconsistent with the context,—

“Animal manure” means manure composed of or containing any portion of the carcase of any stock, and includes the bones, blood, and any other parts of such carcase in every case where the bones, blood, or other parts are suitable or intended for the purposes of manure, but does not include bone-char:

“Attendant” means any person in charge of imported stock, or any person who has at any time during the three months immediately preceding the date of its arrival in the Dominion been in charge of such stock:

“Australasia” means the Commonwealth of Australia and the Dominion of New Zealand (exclusive of the Cook Islands):

“Australasian stock or things” means any stock or things which have not been outside the Commonwealth or the Dominion during the six months immediately preceding the date in respect of which the question of their being Australasian stock or things arises:

“Australasian vessel” means any vessel trading solely between ports or places in the Commonwealth or in the Dominion, and which has so traded during the three months immediately preceding the date in respect of which the question of its being an Australasian vessel arises:

“Clean Australasian vessel” means any vessel which has not during the three months immediately preceding the date in respect of which the question arises as to its being a clean Australasian vessel—(a) Been in any port or place outside the Commonwealth of Australia or the Dominion; (b) had on board any stock put on at any port or place in an Australian State from which the introduction of such stock into the Dominion is prohibited; (c) had on board any infected stock; or (d) had on board any stock or any fodder or fittings used in connection with stock from a vessel which is not a clean Australasian vessel:

“Dominion” means the Dominion of New Zealand, exclusive of the Cook Islands:

“Director” means the Director of the Live-stock Division of the Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce:

“Foreign” means, as regards places, stock, vessels, or things, any place, stock, vessel, or thing other than an Australasian place, stock, vessel, or thing as hereinbefore defined:

“Importer” includes the owner, consignee, or agent for the owner or consignee:

“Inspector of Manure-sterilizing” means an officer appointed to supervise in India or Australia, on behalf of the Dominion, the treatment prescribed for animal manure intended to be forwarded to the Dominion, and generally to carry out the duties assigned to him in these regulations so far as they relate to the introduction of animal manures into the Dominion:

“Litter” means any mats, straw, or other bedding-material with which stock have come in contact, and includes the excreta from stock:

“Live-stock” means live animals of the kinds included in the definition of “stock” given in the said Act:

“Master” means the captain or other person in charge of any vessel:

“Ship’s stock” means any stock on board ship kept for the use of the passengers or crew, and includes any stock on board not intended to be introduced into the Dominion or intended to be transhipped:

“Veterinarian” means any person holding the diploma of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, London, or a qualified veterinarian holding some other diploma which is approved by the Minister:

“Waters” includes the waters of any tidal or navigable river, port, or harbour.

2. The introduction into the Dominion of any stock or animal manure, or of any fodder, litter, fittings, or other things which have, or which are reasonably believed to have, come into contact with any stock, is absolutely prohibited except where such introduction takes place in accordance with the following regulations:

Provided that these regulations shall not apply to any meat which has been frozen, cooked, or preserved, or to any portion of a carcase manufactured into articles of commerce other than animal manure.

INTRODUCTION OF FOREIGN LIVE-STOCK.

Ports of Entry for Foreign Live-stock.

3. Except as hereinafter otherwise provided in the case of horses, such foreign live-stock as may by these regulations be introduced into the Dominion shall be landed only at the ports of Auckland, Wellington, or Lyttelton. In addition to the ports specified, horses from the United Kingdom that pass the Mallein test on arrival, and are accordingly exempted from the provisions as to quarantine by subclause (2) of clause 40 of these regulations, may be landed at Port Chalmers or Dunedin.

Horses and Mules from the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States of America.

4. (1.) Subject to the provisions of these regulations, horses may be introduced into the Dominion from the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States of America.

(2.) Every shipment of such horses must be accompanied by a statutory declaration in the form No. 1 in the Second Schedule hereto, made by the shipper of such horses, setting forth the kind, number, sex, and brands or marks of such horses, and the name of the State or district in which such horses have been for the twelve months immediately preceding the date of shipment, and declaring that such horses are at the time of shipment, and have been during the preceding six months, free from all infectious and contagious diseases, and have not during the six months immediately preceding shipment been in direct or indirect contact with any stock infected with any such disease.

(3.) On every such declaration there shall be inscribed a certificate in the form No. 2 in the Second Schedule hereto, signed in the case of horses from Canada or the United States of America by a Government veterinarian, and in all other cases signed by a veterinarian practising in the district in which such horses have been domiciled for the six months immediately preceding the date of their shipment to New Zealand, or from which they start for the port of shipment, certifying that he has, within the thirty days immediately preceding the date of shipment to New Zealand, examined and tested with the mallein test such horses, and has found them free from infectious and contagious diseases.

(4.) In the case of horses intended to be introduced into the Dominion from the United States of America or from Canada, in addition to the declaration and certificate provided for in the last preceding paragraph, every shipment of such horses must be accompanied by a certificate in the form in the Third Schedule hereto, signed by a Government veterinarian, certifying that neither dourine (maladie du coit) nor epizootic lymphangitis is at the date of shipment, or during the twelve months immediately preceding the shipment of such horses has been, declared or known to exist in the State or district from which such horses are declared by the shipper to have been exported, or in which they are declared to have been during the twelve months immediately preceding.

(5.) For the purposes of this regulation the term “horses” includes mules, but does not include asses.

5. The declaration and the two certificates provided for in the last preceding regulation must be delivered to the veterinarian hereinafter required to examine at the port of shipment horses intended for introduction into the Dominion.

Asses from the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Portugal, Canada, or the United States of America.

6. (1.) Subject to the provisions of these regulations, asses may be introduced into the Dominion from the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Portugal, Canada, or the United States of America.