Brands Act 1915

The registrar, if satisfied that an application for a sheep brand or sheep earmark is in conformity with this Act, shall allot to such applicant a sheep brand or sheep earmark as the case may be and shall register such brand or, as the case may be, earmark in the name of the applicant.

However, if, in the opinion of the registrar, any sheep brand or sheep earmark applied for is similar to or easily convertible into any other sheep brand or, as the case may be, sheep earmark registered in the name of a person who uses it or is likely to use it in the same locality as the brand or earmark applied for is likely to be used the registrar shall make such modification in the brand or earmark applied for as renders it dissimilar to such other brand or earmark or, as the case may require, less easily convertible into such other brand or earmark.

The registrar shall register a sheep brand or a sheep earmark for use only within a particular district to be specified by the registrar and notified by the registrar to the applicant.

A person shall not use a sheep brand or sheep earmark elsewhere than in the district for use within which the same is registered except in the case of travelling sheep.

Every fire brand shall be imprinted upon the position on the horn specified in the prescribed certificate of registration of such fire brand, and every paint brand shall be imprinted—

using the colour; and

upon the position on the shoulder, ribs back or rump;

The letter ‘T’ in paint shall not be registered.

All sheep brands and sheep earmarks shall be branded and made in such manner as may be prescribed.

However—

the cut or cuts when made on the ear shall not remove more than one-third of the ear;

no mark shall be made on that ear which is already marked with a registered sheep earmark;

all earmarks shall be made with pliers.

The registrar shall—

as soon as possible after 31 December in every fourth year, cause to be compiled and published a sheep brands and earmarks directory containing all the sheep brands and sheep earmarks registered up to that date;

from time to time as the registrar thinks desirable cause to be published a statement indicating all transfers, alterations, additions and removals made in the sheep brands and earmarks directory during the period indicated in the statement and certified by the registrar to a date indicated in that statement;