Australian Meat and Live‑stock Industry (Export of Sheep by Sea to Middle East) Amendment (Northern Summer) Order 2019

I, Daryl Quinlivan, Secretary of the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources, make the following order.

Dated 25 March 2019

Daryl Quinlivan

Secretary of the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Australian Meat and Live‑stock Industry (Export of Sheep by Sea to Middle East) Order 2018

1  Name

  This instrument is the Australian Meat and Live-stock Industry (Export of Sheep by Sea to Middle East) Amendment (Northern Summer) Order 2019.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under section 17 of the Australian Meat and Live‑stock Industry Act 1997.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Australian Meat and Live‑stock Industry (Export of Sheep by Sea to Middle East) Order 2018

1  At the end of section 6

Add:

 (3) To avoid doubt, this instrument does not permit the export of a consignment of sheep if the export of the consignment is prohibited by the Australian Meat and Live‑stock Industry (Prohibition of Export of Sheep by Sea to Middle East—Northern Summer) Order 2019.

Note: Under subsection 5(1) of the Australian Meat and Live‑stock Industry (Prohibition of Export of Sheep by Sea to Middle East—Northern Summer) Order 2019, the holder of a sheep export licence must not export a consignment of sheep from Australia by sea on a vessel:

(a) that leaves an Australian port during the period starting at the start of 1 June 2019 and ending at the end of 31 August 2019; and

(b) that will travel, or travels, through waters in the Arabian Sea north of latitude 11°N at any time during its voyage.