New South Wales Consolidated Acts

NOXIOUS WEEDS ACT 1993 - SECT 28

28 Sale etc of certain weed material prohibited

(1) A person (including a public authority) must not sell or purchase:

(a) any notifiable weed material or other noxious weed material prescribed by the regulations, or

(b) any animal or thing which has on it, or contains, notifiable weed material or other noxious weed material prescribed by the regulations,

knowing it to be, or to have on it or to contain, any such weed material.

(2) An occupier of land (including a public authority) must not knowingly remove or cause to be removed from the land any animal or thing which has on it, or contains, notifiable weed material or other noxious weed material prescribed by the regulations.

(3) Notifiable weed material:

(a) in subsection (1) extends to the weed material of a weed that is a notifiable weed in any part of the State, and

(b) in subsection (2) is limited to the weed material of a weed that is a notifiable weed in that part of the State that includes the land that is relevant for the purposes of that subsection.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.