New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PLANT DISEASES ACT 1924 - SECT 16A

16A Permits

(1) An inspector may, on application or on the inspector’s own initiative, issue a permit authorising a person, or class of persons, to move:

(a) any plants or fruit that are infected or which, in the inspector’s opinion, are likely to cause the introduction or spread of any disease or pest, or

(b) any covering or goods in, or with, which plants or fruit referred to in paragraph (a) have been contained, or packed, or with which the covering or goods have come into contact, or

(c) any other thing which, in the inspector’s opinion, is capable of causing the introduction or spread of any disease or pest, or

(d) any plant, fruit, covering, goods or other thing into, or out of, a quarantine area.

(2) A permit has effect for the period of time, and subject to any conditions, specified in the permit.

(3) The inspector may specify such conditions as the inspector thinks fit having regard to the plants, fruit, covering, goods or thing to be moved, or the disease or pest, to which the permit relates.

(4) An inspector may, at any time, revoke or vary a permit, or a condition of a permit.

(5) A permit is issued or a permit or condition is revoked or varied:

(a) in the case of a permit issued to a particular person-by means of an instrument in writing given to the person, or

(b) in the case of a permit issued to a specified class of persons-by means of an instrument published on the Department’s internet website or published in any other manner that, in the opinion of the Director-General, is most likely to bring it to the attention of the persons who will be affected by it.

(6) A person is not guilty of an offence under section 26 in respect of the movement of any plants, fruit, covering, goods or thing that is done in accordance with a permit issued under this section.