New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PLANT DISEASES ACT 1924 - SECT 15

15 Steps to be taken when land or premises are infected

(1) If an inspector has reasonable grounds to suspect the presence of a disease or pest on any land or premises, the inspector may serve on the owner or occupier a notice requiring the owner or occupier to quarantine the land and premises and the plants thereon for a period of not exceeding twenty-one days, and to take such measures or do such acts as are specified in such notice or are prescribed.

(2) Such notice may name a time at which the doing of anything thereby required shall be commenced and a time within which it shall be completed.