This Act may be cited as the Stock Amendment Act, 1913, and shall form part of and be read together with the Stock Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

Section forty-one of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from paragraph (b) the word “eight,” and substituting the word “twelve.”

Section forty-seven of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from paragraph (b) the word “February,” and substituting the word “January.”

On application in the prescribed form by any incorporated society whose object or one of whose objects is the improvement of stock, the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture may, on payment by the society of the prescribed fee, register any brand or mark as a stock-breeders’ association standard mark, to be used on live-stock for the purpose only of indicating that the said stock has, in the opinion of the society, attained such standard of merit as may be fixed by the society:

Provided that a brand or mark shall not be registered under this section if it is identical with any other brand or mark registered under this section or under Part V of the principal Act, or if it so nearly resembles any such brand or mark as, in the opinion of the said Secretary, to be likely to deceive.

On the registration of a brand or mark under this section, the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture shall publish in the Gazette a notification of such registration and a description of the brand or mark.

Every person who brands any stock with any brand or mark registered under this section without the authority of the society on whose application the same was registered is liable to a fine of ten pounds.