Biosecurity (National Bovine Tuberculosis Pest Management Strategy) Amendment Order, 2004.

This Order amends the National Bovine Tuberculosis Pest Management Strategy. The definition of herd has been substituted and new definitions have been inserted (clauses 3 and clause 10). The objectives of the strategy and the principal measures to be used to implement the strategy have been revised (clauses 4 and 5). The term of the strategy has been extended to 30 June 2013 (clause 6). New strategy rules have been inserted including rules relating to: the identification and testing of animals; the requirement for declarations where a cattle beast or deer is being moved; and limitations and prohibitions on the release of pigs into a wild state (clauses 9-16).