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General Section

Animal Health Board Incorporated

Biosecurity Act 1993

Notice of Movement Controls for Bovine Tuberculosis

Pursuant to section 131(2) of the Biosecurity Act 1993, the Animal Health Board Incorporated declares those parts of New Zealand described in the Schedule to this notice to be Controlled Areas for the purpose of enabling the limitation of the spread of bovine tuberculosis.

Pursuant to section 131(3)(a) of the Biosecurity Act 1993, the Animal Health Board gives notice that the movement of cattle and deer within the Controlled Areas is restricted and regulated to the extent and subject to the conditions specified below.

Notice

1. Definitions

In this notice, unless the context otherwise requires:

“herd” means:

(a) a group of cattle, or deer, or cattle and deer, that is managed as one unit; or

(b) a group of cattle, or deer, or cattle and deer, that is kept within the same enclosure or behind the same fence.

“herd of origin” means the herd with which a cattle beast or a deer is, for the time being, grazing.

“Order” means the Biosecurity (National Bovine Tuberculosis Pest Management Strategy) Order 1998.

“Controlled Area” means an area specified in the Schedule to this notice.

2. Testing Prior to Movement From or Within Controlled Areas

2.1 No cattle beast or deer aged 90 days or more may be moved:

(a) from any Controlled Area to a place outside that Controlled Area; or

(b) within any Controlled Area from its herd of origin, or the place or establishment at which the animal is being kept to a place other than a place occupied by the owner or person in charge of the cattle beast or deer

unless it has undergone, within 60 days prior to the date of movement, a negative test for bovine tuberculosis in accordance with the Order.

2.2 The restriction on movement in 2.1 does not apply where an animal is being moved directly to a place of slaughter.

2.3 Notwithstanding 2.1, an animal may be exempted from the requirement for a test in accordance with the Animal Health Board Tuberculosis Operational Plan.

2.4 Where a herd is managed or kept on a property, or group of properties, divided by a boundary described in the Schedule, then the requirements to test cattle or deer described in 2.1 above apply to the whole herd.

This declaration takes effect from 1 March 2008.

Dated at Wellington this 1st day of February 2008.

WILLIAM MCCOOK, Chief Executive, Animal Health Board Incorporated.