Animal (Diseases and Quarantine) Act · 2022 Revised Edition · Part · Prevention of Spread of Disease
33. Further declaration
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
For the purpose of preventing the spread of a disease, the Director may in writing declare that any land, building or other place, any part of which lies within 5 kilometres of the limits of a place declared to be infected under section 32, is infected and identify the disease that could spread there.
disease
“disease” includes any animal disease that is infectious or contagious amongst animals and includes any other disease which the Minister may, by notification published in the Gazette, declare to be a disease for the purpose of this Act;
When the declaration has been delivered to the occupier or owner of any land, building or other place mentioned in subsection (1), the land, building or other place, together with all contiguous lands, buildings and other places occupied or owned by such occupier or owner, constitutes an infected place.
owner
“owner” includes any person for the time being in charge of any animal and any person for the time being in occupation of any building;
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animal
“animal” means any mammal (other than man) or bird and includes any other living creature that is prescribed as an animal for the purposes of this Act or that falls within a class of animals that is prescribed for those purposes;
Terms defined in s 2
animal
Defined · s 2“animal” means any mammal (other than man) or bird and includes any other living creature that is prescribed as an animal for the purposes of this Act or that falls within a class of animals that is prescribed for those purposes;
building
Defined · s 2“building” includes any house, hut, shed, tent, stable or enclosure, whether roofed or not, used for sheltering or confining any animal and any pen, cage, wall, gate, pillar, post, paling, frame, boarding, fence, platform, roadway, path, steps, staging, slip, wharf, dock, piles, jetty, landing stage or bridge, or any structure connected with the foregoing;
disease
Defined · s 2“disease” includes any animal disease that is infectious or contagious amongst animals and includes any other disease which the Minister may, by notification published in the Gazette, declare to be a disease for the purpose of this Act;
owner
Defined · s 2“owner” includes any person for the time being in charge of any animal and any person for the time being in occupation of any building;
quarantine
Defined · s 2“quarantine” means the compulsory detention in isolation of any animal or thing;
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