These regulations may be cited as the Farm Quarantine Regulations 1966.

These regulations shall come into force on the day after the date of their notification in the Gazette.

Where an Inspector examines any stock and suspects that it may be affected with any disease specified in Schedule 2 to the Stock Act 1908 (which was substituted by section 9(1) of the Stock Amendment Act 1955), he may, by notice given in accordance with regulation 3 hereof, declare every animal that is in the same lot as the suspected animal and is susceptible to the disease to be quarantined on the land specified in the notice for the period specified in the notice, being the period reasonably required to obtain confirmation of the diagnosis.

Any Inspector may at any time withdraw any such notice.

Every notice under subclause (1) of regulation 2 hereof shall be given by serving the notice or a copy thereof on the owner or person in charge of each animal to which the notice relates.

Any person on whom any such notice is served may appeal in respect thereof to the Chief Inspector, who may cancel, vary, or confirm the notice.

While any such notice remains in force, every person on whom the notice or a copy thereof has been served shall cause every animal to which the notice relates to be confined to the land specified in the notice.

Every person who knowingly fails to comply with or knowingly acts in contravention of regulation 5 hereof commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred pounds.

Where an Inspector gives any notice under subclause (1) of regulation 2 hereof, he shall on the same day notify the Chief Inspector that he has done so.