PEST PLANTS AND ANIMALS ACT 2005 - SECT 17 Pest animal management plan

PEST PLANTS AND ANIMALS ACT 2005 - SECT 17

    (1)     The Minister may prepare a plan (a pest animal management plan ) for the management of a pest animal.

    (2)     Without limiting subsection (1), a pest animal management plan may outline requirements for the following, having regard to the potential threat and the practicality of control measures:

        (a)     managing the environmental and agricultural impact of a pest animal in a cost effective way if its eradication is impractical;

        (b)     controlling potential sources of invasion through trade, transport and escape from urban areas.

Note     A power to make a statutory instrument includes power to make different provision in relation to different matters or different classes of matters (see Legislation Act

, s 48).

    (3)     The plan must be consistent with any code of practice under the Animal Welfare Act 1992

that applies to the pest animal.

    (4)     A pest animal management plan is a notifiable instrument.

Note     A notifiable instrument must be notified under the Legislation Act

.