Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00100:reg:8:p6
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00100
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 8 (pt 6/75)
Character Range: 80880–83501

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Chapter 3—Accredited properties

Part 1—Introduction

3‑1  Application of this Chapter
  This Chapter applies in relation to the accreditation of a property that is a farm, a feedlot or a saleyard for a kind of export operations in relation to prescribed meat or meat products.
Note: This Chapter includes requirements for certain prescribed meat and meat products and the bovine animals from which they are derived to be free of HGP treatment if the meat or meat products are for export to a member state of the European Union for food (see also Subdivision H of Division 2 of Part 1 of Chapter 5 (Meat or meat products for export to the European Union as food).

3‑2  When an animal is taken to have been treated with an HGP
  For the purposes of this instrument, an animal is taken to have been treated with an HGP if:
 (a) the animal, or its carcase or any of its carcase parts, is identified as having been treated with an HGP by the application of a triangular ear punch; or
 (b) a marker indicative of treatment with an HGP is found during inspection or other handling of the animal or its carcase or any of its carcase parts; or
 (c) residue of an HGP above physiologically normal levels is detected in the animal, or its carcase or any of its carcase parts, during residue testing: or
  (d) treatment records relating to the animal indicate that it has been treated with an HGP.
Note: Examples of other handling of an animal, its carcase or carcase parts are dressing or processing.

Part 2—Requirements for accreditation etc.

Division 1—Requirements for accreditation

3‑3  Purpose of this Division
  For the purposes of paragraph 79(2)(b) of the Act, this Division prescribes requirements that must be met for a property to be accredited for EU export meat production operations.
Note: The requirements in this Division also apply in relation to an application to renew the accreditation of the property (see paragraph 84(2)(a) of the Act).

3‑4  Requirements for farms
  The requirements for a farm are as follows:
 (a) the farm has a property identification code;
 (b) if bovine animals are held on the farm—none of those animals has been, or is to be, treated with an HGP;
 (c) there are no HGPs on the farm.
Note 1: For property identification code, see section 1‑5.
Note 2: For when an animal is taken to have been treated with an HGP, see section 3‑2.

3‑5  Requirements for feedlots
 (1) The requirements for a feedlot are as follows:
 (a) the feedlot has a property identification code;
 (b) if bovine animals that are to be slaughtered