New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PLANT DISEASES ACT 1924 - SECT 8

8 Quarantine

(1) Where land is by the provisions of this Act quarantined, the quarantine may be general or in respect of a particular disease or pest.

(2) The nature of the quarantine shall be stated in the notice or notification imposing the quarantine or in the undertaking given with respect to any land or plants or fruit under the provisions of section 7.

(3) A quarantine may be imposed or declared for a disease or pest although the land is already in quarantine for another disease or pest.

(4) The course of action to be taken by the owner or occupier of land when the land is directed to be quarantined shall be as prescribed by regulation, or if there is no regulation applicable thereto, then as directed by the Minister.

(5) The Minister may by notification in the Gazette apply to any specified part of a quarantine area special and more drastic regulations than those which may be operating in the rest of the quarantine area.

(6) The Minister may by a like notification direct that all plants of a particular class and the fruit thereof within a quarantine area or within some specified part of a quarantine area shall be treated for the disease or pest in respect of which the quarantine is imposed whether the plants or fruit are diseased or infected or not.