ILLEGAL LOGGING PROHIBITION ACT 2012 - SECT 9 Importing illegally logged timber in regulated timber products

ILLEGAL LOGGING PROHIBITION ACT 2012 - SECT 9

  (1)   A person commits an offence if:

  (a)   the person imports a thing; and

  (b)   the thing is, is made from, or includes, illegally logged timber; and

  (c )   the thing is a regulated timber product ; and

  (d)   the thing is not prescribed as exempt by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph.

Penalty:   5 years imprisonment or 500 penalty units, or both.

  (2)   The fault e lement for paragraph   ( 1)(b ) is negligence.

  (3 )   A regulated timber product is a timber product prescribed by the regulations.