STATUTORY RULES

1915. No. 145.

PROVISIONAL REGULATION UNDER THE QUARANTINE ACT 1908-1912.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby certify that, on account of urgency, the following Regulation under the Quarantine Act 1908-1912 should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulation to come into operation forthwith as a Provisional Regulation.

Dated this eighteenth day of August, One thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

FRANK G. TUDOR,

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

Amendment of Quarantine Regulations 1915

(Statutory Rules 1915, No. 88.)

Regulation 80a of the Quarantine Regulations 1915 (Statutory Rules No. 88 of 1915) is amended by omitting paragraph (3) thereof, and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—

80a. (3) The quarantine period of any animal which immediately prior to shipment from the United Kingdom has passed twenty-eight days at the Cattle Testing Station established by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries at Pirbright, in Surrey, and has during that period been tested with tuberculin, and is accompanied by a certificate under the seal of the said Board to that effect, shall be fourteen days. Any such animal shall be exempt from the tuberculin test on arrival in Australia.

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