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Live Stock Import Regulations. [feb., 



According to regulations under the Stock Diseases Act, 1895, 



and dated 24th September, 1902, no stock shall be landed 



at any port of Western Australia other 



Live Stock Import than Fremantle, Albany, Champion Bay, 



Regulations— -._ y \ / 



Western Australia *Cossack, Eucla, Esperance, and Bunbuiy, 



unless they shall have been first inspected 



and passed by an inspector of stock at any one of these ports. 



All stock found on arrival by an inspector to be suffering from 



any infectious or contagious disease shall be forthwith destroyed, 



or kept and treated in quarantine, as such inspector shall direct. 



Quarantine. — All stock imported into Western Australia 

 from Great Britain shall undergo quarantine as follows : — 

 Horses, fourteen days ; cattle, thirty days ; sheep, fourteen days ; 

 and pigs, thirty days. All expenses of landing, removing to, main 

 taining and keeping in quarantine, and of disinfecting or other- 

 wise treating any stock shall be paid by the owner or consignee 

 of such stock to the inspector upon demand, and before such 

 stock shall be removed from quarantine. Fees for the examina- 

 tion of the stock shall be as follows : — Horses and cattle, one to 

 five head, 10s., and is. for every additional head ; sheep and pigs, 

 one to fifty head, 10s., and for every additional head, id. ; 

 provided that the whole amount of fees for inspection of any 

 one shipment by the same owner shall not exceed £$. 



Horses and Cattle. — By regulations dated 30th March, 1904, 

 horses and cattle imported into the Colony from Great Britain 

 shall, immediately before leaving the place of shipment, be 

 subjected by a duly qualified veterinary surgeon in the case of 

 horses to the mallein test for glanders, and in the case of cattle 

 to the tuberculin test for tuberculosis. A certificate of the 

 veterinary surgeon that they have been submitted to such test 

 and are free from disease or infection must be produced before 

 the landing of the stock will be permitted. All such stock may 

 be again subjected to the maUein test or to the tuberculin test, 

 as the case may be, after their arrival and before they are released 



* Live stock import regulations have been published in this Jotn-nal for the follow 

 ing countries : — United States, June, 1903, and Oct., 1904; Argentina, Jan., 1905; 

 Cape Colony, Feb., 1905 ; Canada, March, 1905; New South Wales, April, 1905 ; 

 Germany, May, 1905 ; New Zealand, June, 1905 ; South Australia, July, 1905 ; 

 France, August, 1905 ; Belgium, Sept., 1905 ; Uruguay, Oct., 1905 ; Victoria 

 Nov., 1905; Spain, Dec, 1905; and Queensland, Jan., 1906. 



