Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2017C00466:clause:2_25:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2017C00466
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 2 cl 25 (pt 1/6)
Character Range: 50551–53208

25  Inputs relating to the crediting period

      Sections 25 and 26, as well as Schedule 1, allow for some flexibility in how the proponent can obtain the average liveweights that are to be entered into the calculator. However, it is expected that in most cases, the proponent will follow the following procedure.
      For inputs to the calculator, whenever animals enter or leave the herd:

                   (a) they are treated as having entered or left at the mid-point of the month in which they entered or left;
                   (b) if they enter or leave by being bought or sold, the sale weights are used.

      Animals that are born into the herd are entered into the calculator as having entered the herd by birth in the month in which they were branded, and are assigned a weight at branding of 75 kg.
      In addition, there will be an annual muster at which all animals that are less than 3 years old, but are expected spend more than 12 months in the herd, will be weighed (or suitable samples of them will be weighed). The muster will take place within the period from 6 weeks before to 6 weeks after the assessment day.  (For the first and last assessment days only, weights that are taken outside the period from 2 weeks before to 2 weeks after the assessment day must be adjusted by linear projection. This is because weights taken outside that period could produce discrepancies in the calculations for one assessment year that are not automatically corrected in the next.)
      Animals over 3 years old will be taken to have the weights derived in accordance with paragraph (1)(e).
      For animals that that are expected to spend less than 12 months in the herd, the proponent will wait until they are sold, and will then use linear projection under paragraph (1)(h) to derive weights for the assessment day. (Note that dates used for linear projection must be after the date of application and before the end of the crediting period.)
      If the animals recorded by the muster are the same as the animals on the livestock inventory on the assessment day, these figures will be used as the input figures for the end of one year and the beginning of the next.  However, if any animals enter or leave the herd:

                   (a) between the muster and the assessment day, where the muster is earlier; or
                   (b) between the assessment day and the muster, where the muster is later;
      the arrivals and departures will be entered into the calculator in the normal way, for the assessment year in which they occur, and the input figures for the assessment day will be adjusted accordingly.

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