482 Live Stock Import Regulations — Victoria, [nov 



deposit (Order in Council, 26th July, 1904), which varies with 

 the number and kind of stock to be imported, the animals may 

 be landed in quarantine. The sum deposited is applied to 

 cover the expenses incidental to inspection and quarantine, and 

 the balance is refunded. Food, attendance, conveyance to and 

 from the quarantine station, must be provided and paid for 

 directly by the owner. 



If any of the stock, either before or after being landed at the 

 quarantine station, are found to be diseased, they may be forth- 

 with destroyed by an Inspector of Stock. 



All risk in connection with the removal of any stock to the 

 quarantine ground, and the detention and treatment thereof, or 

 from the destruction of such stock to prevent the spread of 

 disease, or from any other cause, must be borne by the owner of 

 the stock, and no compensation will be paid for any loss. 



Cattle and Sheep. — Any person intending to introduce cattle 

 or sheep into Victoria shall give sixty days' notice, in writing, to 

 the Chief Inspector of Stock, stating the kind and number 

 of stock, the ages and sexes of the stock, and the country and 

 place from which they are to be introduced. All such cattle 

 or sheep, prior to their being shipped for Victoria, shall be 

 carefully inspected by a duly qualified veterinary surgeon ap- 

 proved by the Governor. The exporter shall produce and deliver 

 to the veterinary surgeon inspecting such cattle or sheep a cer- 

 tificate from an authorised veterinary surgeon in the district in 

 which the animals were when sold for exportation, or from which 

 they started for the port of shipment, to the effect: — (1) That they 

 have been in Great Britain or Ireland for a period of not less 

 than fourteen days,; (2) that they are free from infection \ and 

 (3) that they have not within the sixty days last preceding been 

 in contact with infection. If the veterinary surgeon be satisfied 

 that the cattle or sheep are free from infection, and that all the 

 other requirements of the regulations in force have up to that 

 time been duly complied with, he shall make a declaration tb 

 that effect, and shall deliver it, together with the certificate 

 mentioned above, to the master of the vessel. The master of 

 the vessel and the principal attendant of such cattle or sheep 

 during the voyage shall make statutory declarations setting 

 t out the number of animals shipped, deaths during the voyage, 

 and particulars of the cause of such deaths. These declarations, 



