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It may not be reproduced for commercial gain. ©State of Queensland "THE POULTRY INDUSTRY REGULATIONS OF 1946" Inserted by regulations published Gazette 3 March 1947, p. 761; and amended by regulations published Gazette 13 November 1968, p. 2686; 23 July, 1949, p. 224; 25 March 1950, p. 1166; 20 January 1951, p. 162; 9 June 1951, p. 686; 8 November 1952, p. 1136; 16 May 1953, p. 413; 2 July 1955, p. 1118; 3 March 1956, p. 633; 5 April 1958, p. 1543; 14 June 1958, p. 1488, 13 December 1958, p. 1923; 25 April 1959, p. 2357; 10 October 1959, p. 896; 12 December 1959, p. 2180; 12 March 1960, pp. 1327-30; 2 April 1960, p. 1601; 22 April1961, p. 22.53; 11 August 1962, p. 1785; 23 November 1963, p. 1011; 22 February 1964, p. 710; 7 March 1964, p. 865; 16 January 1965, p. 117; 3 July 1965, p. 1323; 12 February 1966, p. 1175; 26 February 1966, p. 1365; 16 April 1966, p. 1983; 7 May 1966, pp. 160-1; 9 July 1966, p. 1352; 27 August 1966, p. 2022. Department of Agriculture and Stock, Brisbane, 27th February, 1947. HIS Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has, in pursuance of the provisions of "The Poultry Industry Act of 1946," been pleased to make the following Regulations:- 1. The Regulations made under "The Diseases in Poultry Act of 1923," "The Diseases in Poultry Act Amendment Act of 1937," and "The Diseases in Poultry Acts Amendment Act of 1940" are hereby repealed. 1A. These Regulations may be cited as "The Poultry Industry Regulations of 1946." Inserted by regulation published Gazette 2 July 1955, p. 118. 2. These Regulations are divided into four parts, as follows:­ PART 1-DISEASE CONTROL; PART 2-STOCK SUPPLIERS; PART 3-THE SLAUGHTER OF POULTRY FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION AND EGG STANDARDS; PART 4-GENERAL. T. L. WILLIAMS. Part 1 DISEASE CONTROL 3. In this Part, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following term shall have the meaning set against it, that is to say:- "Place of Entry" Brisbane (including South Brisbane Railway Station and Archerfield and Eagle Farm Aerodromes), Cairns, Townsville, Mackay, Rockhampton, Coolangatta, Killarney, Wallangarra. 2 Regs. 4-9 ~~QULATIONS 4. No person shall travel or remove any poultry or fittings into, within, or out of any place which is subject to an order of quarantine by an inspector, except as hereafter provided, unless and until the quarantine has been removed by the Minister. 5. Every person desiring to move poultry and/or fittings within or out cof .an infected area shall make application to ,an inspector for a permit so to do. Such application shall contain the following particulars:- (a) The name and place of abode .of the owner of such poultry and/ or fittings; (b) The holding on which such poultry and/or fittings are located; (c) The number and description of such poultry and/ or fittings; (d) The date on which it is desired to move such poultry and/or fittings; (e) The place to which it is desired to move such poultry and/ or . fittings; (f) The route and the means of transport by which such poultry and/ or fittings are to be moved. If the inspector is satisfied that such a movement of poultry and/ or fittings is not likely to spread infection or disease he may grant a permit authorising such movement upon such conditions as he may impose and embody in the permit. 6. No person shall move any poultry and/or fittings within or out of an infected area- ( a) Unless he is the holder of a permit from an inspector author­ ising such movement; (b) In contravention of any condition embodied in a permit authorising such movement. 7. No person other than an inspector shall make any alteration in or addition to any permit granted by an inspector. 8. No person shall remove any animal infested with Stickfast Flea from an infected area or move any such animal so infested from any holding within an infected area. 9. Every person desiring to move any dog or cat within or out of an infected area shall make application .to an inspector for a permit so to do. Such application shall contain the following particulars:- (a) The name and place of abode of the owner of such animal; (b) The holding on which such animal is located; (c) The date on which it is desired to move such animal; (d) The place to which it is desired to move such animal; (e) The route .and the means .of .transport by which it is desired to move such animal. If the inspector is satisfied that such a movement is not likely to spread infection or disease he may grant a permit authorising such move­ ment upon such conditions as he may impose and embody in the permit. REGULATIONS Reg<i.l0-19 3 10. No person shall move any dog or cat within or out of an infected area- (a) Unless he is the holder of a permit from an inspector authoris­ ing such movement; (b) In contravention of any condition embodied in a permit authorising such movement. 11. Every owner of a holding in an infected area on which any disease affecting poultry is found by an inspector or on which any such disease has been so found within the last preceding three months shall treat all animals on such holding to the satisfaction of an inspector in such manner and for such period as the inspector shall by notice in writing direct. 12. Every owner of poultry kept on a holding in an infected area shall isolate such poultry on such holding by confining such poultry in such a manner as to prevent such poultry from straying or flying from such holding. 13. No poultry slia"U be taken ihto any place whiCh is subject to an order of quarantine except for the purpose of immediate slaughter. 14. When an area is put under quarantine, so much of the surround­ ing country as is considered necessary by the inspector making the quar­ antine order may be declared a buffer area, and no poultry or fittings shall be removed from such area without written permission of an inspector, who shall inspect such poultry and fittings before granting such permission. 15. Every owner of a holding shall at all times keep and maintain such holding free of all rubbish and litter in, on or near the fittings on such holding by burning or otherwise· destroying sucli' rubbish and litter to· the satisfaction of an inspector. 16. Any inspector may before entering upon a holding to inspect poultry give at least twenty-four hours' notice in writing to the owner of such holding requiring him to confine all poultry on such holding or such poultry thereon as the inspector may specify in such notice in such a manner as will permit such inspector readily to inspect the same. 17. All diseased poultry shall be isolated by the person in charge thereof from healthy poultry, and all infected poultry shall be treated by the person in charge thereof to the satisfaction of the inspector, or shall' oe placed by the person in charge thereof in quarantine for such period as an inspector may direct. 18. Every owner of infected poultry kept on a holding shall isolate such poultry on such holding by confining such poultry to the satisfaction of an inspector in such manner and for such period as the inspector shall by notice in writing direct. · 19. When any poultry or fittings or any article or thing used in connection with poultry has been ordered to be destroyed, the inspector to whom the order has been dir~cted by the Minister shall, before G>ndeving. the destruction thereof, give notice of the order to the owner thereof (if known), either personally or by letter addressed to him through the Post Office at his place of business, or, if he has no known place of business, at his last known place of abode. 4 Regs. 20·22 REGULATIONS 20. In the event of it being considered necessary by an inspector, for the purpose of combating an outbreak of disease, to have diseased poultry destroyed, the carcasses of such poultry and all fittings or other things used in connection with such poultry, or which have been in contact with such poultry, shall be disposed of by burning or other means by the person in charge thereof, to the satisfaction of the inspector. 20A. ( 1 ) Where any holding placed in quarantine is infected with the disease of avian pneumoencephalitis the Chief Inspector shall give written notice that the holding is so infected to the occupier or if there is no occupier the owner either by serving him with the notice personally or by registered post. Any occupier or owner so served with a notice who, except with the permission in writing of the Chief Inspector, shall move or send or cause or permit or allow to be moved or sent from the holding during the period the holding is placed in quarantine any poultry, animal, carcass, eggs, manure, fittings, or any other thing whereby the said disease may be spread, shall be guilty of an offence. (2) The Minister may order the destruction or disposal of any poultry, animal, carcass, eggs, manure, fittings, or other thing in an infected area which area is infected with the disease of avian pneumoencephalitis when­ ever such destruction or disposal would tend to prevent the spread of the said disease of avian pneumoencephalitis.