Brands Act 1915

Any person wishing to transfer the right to any registered horse and cattle brand, and the person to whom such right is intended to be transferred, shall make and sign, in the presence of a justice of the peace or barrister or solicitor or legal practitioner or commissioner of the Supreme Court, a memorandum in the approved form, and shall deliver or transmit the same to the registrar together with the prescribed fee.

The registrar shall, upon the receipt of such memorandum and fees, cancel the original registration of such brand standing in the name of the transferor, and shall re-register such brand in the name of the transferee, and shall deliver or transmit to the transferee a notification of transfer in the approved form.

Such transferee shall thereafter be deemed to be the person having the exclusive right to use such brand.

Any cattle earmark or symbol brand registered in conjunction with such brand shall, unless otherwise specified by the transferor, be transferred at the same time to the same person.

However, in the case of any cattle earmark it shall not be transferred unless the registered horse and cattle brand is to be used in the district for which the cattle earmark was originally registered.

The right to use any sheep brand or sheep earmark may be transferred in like manner; but such sheep brand or sheep earmark shall not, except in the case of travelling sheep, be used by the transferee in any district other than that for which it was originally registered.

The right to use a pig brand may be transferred in a like manner prescribed in subsection (1).

However, a pig brand shall not be used by the transferee otherwise than—

at a property specified by the registrar; or

if no property is so specified, in the district specified by the registrar;

The registrar shall keep a register in the approved form, in which all such transfers shall be recorded.