New South Wales Consolidated Acts

NOXIOUS WEEDS ACT 1993 - SECT 7

7 Weed control orders

(1) The Minister may, by order published in the Gazette, make a weed control order for a specified plant.

(2) A weed control order is to do the following:

(a) declare that the plant is a noxious weed,

(b) apply a weed control class or classes to the plant,

(c) specify the land (being part or the whole of the State) to which the order applies,

(d) specify the control measures that are to be, or may be, used to control the plant in general or particular circumstances,

(e) specify the control objectives for the plant,

(f) specify the term of the order (being a period not exceeding 5 years).

(3) A plant that is the subject of a weed control order is a "noxious weed" for the purposes of this Act.

(4) An order takes effect from the date of its publication in the Gazette or on a later date specified in the order.

(5) The Minister may not make an order declaring any plant that is native to the State to be a noxious weed, except with the consent of the Minister administering the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 .