STATUTORY RULES.

1935. No. 11.

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REGULATION UNDER THE QUARANTINE ACT 1908-1924.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Quarantine Act 1908-1924.

Dated this eighteenth day of February, 1935.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W.M. HUGHES

Minister of State for Health.

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Amendment of Quarantine Regulations 1927.†

After regulation 126 of the Quarantine Regulations 1927 the following regulation is inserted:—

“126a. The importation of fertile eggs for hatching purposes shall be subject to the following conditions:—

(1) If from New Zealand they shall be accompanied by a declaration from the owner that they are from a farm upon which the disease bacillary white diarrhoea does not exist.

(2) If from Great Britain, Northern Ireland, or the Irish Free State, they shall be accompanied by—

(a) a declaration from the owner that—

(i) the birds from which they were obtained have been in his possession for the three months next preceding date of shipment;

(ii) the birds are free from disease and that the disease bacillary white diarrhoea does not exist on the farm.

(b) A certificate from an Approved Veterinary Surgeon that after due inquiry he has no reason to doubt the owner’s declaration and that no variety of the disease known as fowl pest is known to exist within ten miles of the farm from which the eggs were obtained.”

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on     , 1935.

† Statutory Rules 1927, No. 8.

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By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

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