All state schools
This procedure outlines the administration processes and legislative requirements for the agistment of livestock in state schools.
Schools may agist livestock in a number of ways. This includes agistment of privately-owned livestock on school property (including livestock owned by school staff) for use in school educational programs or as a commercial arrangement. Agistment of school livestock on non-school property may also occur.
State schools must have transparent governance and administration processes with regard to the receipt, movement, husbandry, sale, fitting (grooming), showing, registration and branding of livestock in schools including:
This procedure aligns with existing legislation and codes of practice regarding the management of livestock, and includes applicable registration, biosecurity and ethical requirements. Other departmental policies, procedures and practices also apply to agistment arrangements, including financial processes, asset management, procurement, revenue, gifts and benefits, donations, advertising, sponsorship and appropriate and ethical use of public resources.
Image 1: Process for agistment of livestock
Term
Definition
Agistment
Agisting livestock involves placing animals on another person’s property for an agreed period of time.
Code
The Australian code for the care and use of animals for scientific purposes, 8th edition 2013 (updated 2021).
Commercial arrangement
Any activity intended to make financial gain and or economic benefit.
General biosecurity obligation
The obligation for a person to take all reasonable and practical measures to prevent or minimise the biosecurity risk as outlined in Chapter 2, Part 1, Section 23 of the Biosecurity Act 2014 (Qld).
Livestock
For the purpose of this procedure, livestock refers to animals that are commonly used in agriculture and aquaculture activities.
National Livestock Identification System (NLIS)
The NLIS is Australia's system for the identification and traceability of cattle, sheep and goats.
Property identification code (PIC)
A unique eight character code that is allocated to an RBE once registered with Biosecurity Queensland. PICs are used to purchase NLIS devices, to access industry systems such as national vendor declarations (NVDs) and to report movements to the NLIS database.
Registrable biosecurity entity (RBE)
Anyone who owns or keeps any of the following, must be registered as a biosecurity entity:
Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)
For the purpose of this procedure, a SOP contains activities and environmental conditions that have already been considered and accepted by the Queensland Schools Animal Ethics Committee as being ethically sound. It details best practice methods for the care and use of the relevant animals for scientific purposes.
Unexpected adverse event (UAE)
UAEs are incidents that may have a negative impact on the wellbeing of animals and that were not anticipated in the approved project or activity. More information about UAEs is available on the DAF website.
Previous seven years shown. Minor version updates not included.
1.0 Livestock on school grounds
2.0 Agistment of livestock
For further information, please contact: Local Biosecurity Queensland Inspectors at the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries through the call centre on 13 25 23 your closest Department of Education regional office.
Uncontrolled copy. Refer to the Department of Education Policy and Procedure Register to ensure you have the most current version of this document.
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