Health of Animals Regulations

147 (1) No person shall load, confine or transport an animal, or cause one to be loaded, confined or transported, in a conveyance or container unless

• (a) in the case of livestock, cervids, camelids and ratites, the animal is able to stand at all times within the conveyance or container with all feet on the floor, with head elevated, with sufficient space to permit a full range of head movement and without any part of its body coming into contact with a deck, roof or top of the conveyance or cover of the container;

• (b) in the case of poultry, other than ratites, confined in a container, the animal is able to maintain a squatting or sitting position with sufficient space to permit a full range of head movement without coming into contact with the cover of the container; and

• (c) in the case of all other animals, and poultry that is not confined in a container, the animal is able to maintain its preferred position with sufficient space to permit a full range of head movement.

(2) No person shall load, confine or transport an equine, or cause an equine to be loaded, confined or transported by land, in a conveyance that has more than one deck.