New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PLANT DISEASES ACT 1924 - SECT 4

4 Power to regulate or prohibit the introduction of things likely to introduce disease

(1) The Governor may by proclamation published in the Gazette regulate or prohibit the importation, introduction, or bringing into the State (or into any specified portion thereof) either generally or from any country or place, or the bringing into one portion of the State from any other portion of:

(a) any plant, fruit, or other thing of any nature or kind whatsoever which in the Governor’s opinion is likely to introduce any disease or pest into the State or into any specified portion thereof, as the case may be, or

(b) any covering or goods in, or with which, any such plant, fruit, or thing has been contained, or packed, or with which it has come in contact, or

(c) anything which is infected.

(2) Unless it sooner ceases to be in force, a proclamation made under subsection (1) is revoked on the tenth anniversary of the date on which it was published in the Gazette.

Note: For proclamations under this section see the Historical notes at the end of this Act.