New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PLANT DISEASES ACT 1924 - SECT 18

18 Power to question vendors of fruit and plants

(1) An inspector may require any person having possession or control of fruit or plants, which the inspector suspects on reasonable grounds are intended for sale, to answer any questions relating to the fruit or plants.

(2) A person who:

(a) refuses to answer, to the best of the person’s knowledge, a question put in accordance with a requirement made under subsection (1), or

(b) gives, to such a question, an answer which to the person’s knowledge is false or misleading,

is guilty of an offence and liable to a penalty not exceeding 100 penalty units.

(3) A person is not guilty of an offence under this section unless it is established that the inspector:

(a) warned the person that a failure or refusal to comply with the requirement is an offence, and

(b) identified himself or herself as an inspector to the person.