Services prescribed not to be veterinary services
6 Services prescribed not to be veterinary services
(1) For the definition veterinary services in section 3 of the Act, the following services are not veterinary services:
dehorning cattle or buffalo that are less than 12 months old;
(b) castrating cattle, buffalo or camels that are less than 12 months old;
castrating goats or sheep that are less than 6 months old;
tailing lambs that are less than 6 months old;
mulesing sheep;
(f) vaccinating animals kept in the course of primary production with a registered veterinary chemical product in accordance with the label;
(g) implanting cattle with a hormonal growth promotant that is a registered veterinary chemical product in accordance with the label;
(h) pregnancy testing of cattle or buffalo by rectal examination or another technique approved by the Chief Inspector;
(i) treatment of internal or external parasites except by naso‑gastric intubation;
(j) spaying cattle using the Willis Dropped Ovary Technique with the written approval of the Chief Inspector;
(k) non‑surgical artificial insemination of cattle, sheep, goats or pigs;
(l) cleaning and rasping the teeth of horses with a manual tooth rasp;
removing loose tooth caps from horses;
scaling and polishing the teeth of animals.
In this regulation:
label, see section 4 of the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Control of Use) Act 2004.
registered veterinary chemical product, see section 4 of the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Control of Use) Act 2004.
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