---
title: "Livestock agistment agreement (NSW)"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/agribusiness-and-rural-law/agistment-agreement"
type: "precedent"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "a38-agistment-agreement"
area_id: "A38"
kind: "agreement"
ai_level: "yellow"
version: 1
law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-17"
---

# Livestock agistment agreement (NSW)

> Agreement for a landholder to graze and care for another person's livestock for a fee, covering stock numbers, feed and water, care, biosecurity and NLIS, risk, title, any lien and removal.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/agribusiness-and-rural-law/agistment-agreement  
Law stated as at: 2026-10-17

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## Key facts

- Kind: Agreement. A contract between two or more parties.
- Practice area: [Agribusiness & Rural Law](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/agribusiness-and-rural-law.md)
- Jurisdictions: New South Wales, Australia
- AI level: Yellow. AI can help in set ways. A lawyer checks specific points before use.
- Law stated as at: 2026-10-17
- Status: Maintained. Checked on 2026-10-17 against the 7 authorities it cites, for New South Wales and Australia.

## When to use it

Use for commercial agistment of cattle, sheep or goats on NSW land. Do not use for share-farming, livestock leasing or sale on terms; adapt the biosecurity and NLIS clauses for other states.

## How AI may be used

AI may adapt the agreement to the stock, property and fee details, but PPSA registration, lien and biosecurity points must be confirmed by the lawyer for the state where the stock are held.

**AI may:**

- Populate the schedules from the parties' instructions, NVDs and NLIS records.
- Produce a plain-English summary of each party's obligations for the client.
- Compare a counterparty's agistment terms with this precedent and list differences.

**AI must not:**

- Must not decide whether a PPSA registration is needed or whether the agreement is a PPS lease.
- Must not set fees or carrying capacity.
- Must not draft a power of sale over the stock without the lawyer's instruction.

**The lawyer checks:**

- Whether the agister provides value (s 13(3)) and whether any lien clause creates a security interest that should be registered.
- NLIS, PIC and movement documentation requirements in the state where the stock are held.
- If either party is a small business using standard terms, the unfair contract terms rules.

## Authorities

- [Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth) s 8(1)(c) (liens arising by operation of the general law excluded)](https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2009A00130/latest/text)
- [Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth) s 12 (meaning of security interest)](https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2009A00130/latest/text)
- [Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth) s 13 (PPS lease; applies only to bailments for which the bailee provides value)](https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2009A00130/latest/text)
- [Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth) ss 20, 21, 267 (enforceability, perfection, vesting of unperfected interests on insolvency)](https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2009A00130/latest/text)
- [Biosecurity Act 2015 (NSW) Pt 3 (general biosecurity duty)](https://legislation.nsw.gov.au/view/html/inforce/current/act-2015-024#pt.3)
- [Biosecurity (National Livestock Identification System) Regulation 2017 (NSW)](https://legislation.nsw.gov.au/view/html/inforce/current/sl-2017-0231)
- [Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) Sch 2 (Australian Consumer Law) s 23 (unfair terms in standard form small business contracts)](https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2004A00109/latest/text)

## Full text and drafting notes

The full text and the drafting notes are not part of this public page. Signed-in firm accounts can read them at https://ailawframework.com/precedents/agribusiness-and-rural-law/agistment-agreement and through the signed-in MCP connector https://ailawframework.com/mcp/firm.

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*