New South Wales Consolidated Acts

STOCK (CHEMICAL RESIDUES) ACT 1975 - SECT 7

7 Temporary notice for detention of chemically affected stock

(1) An inspector may give to a person who owns or is in charge of stock which are chemically affected or which the inspector suspects are chemically affected a notice (in a form approved by the Director-General) that requires that person, except as provided in section 9:

(a) to keep those stock at a specified place for a specified period (not exceeding forty days), and

(b) where any of those stock are not situated at the place specified in the notice at the time the notice is given, to move them to that place.

(1A) An inspector may, with the approval of the Director-General, extend the period of a detention notice under subsection (1) for a further period (not exceeding 40 days) specified in a further notice in writing given to the person who owns or is in charge of the stock to which the detention notice relates.

(1B) The power conferred on an inspector by subsection (1A) may not be exercised more than twice in respect of any detention notice.

(2) Where an inspector gives a detention notice under subsection (1) in respect of stock which the inspector only suspects are chemically affected, the inspector shall take for analysis specimens from those stock or from a sample of those stock or exercise any other power conferred by this Act for the purpose of ascertaining whether those stock are chemically affected.

(3) The Minister, or the inspector who gave a person a detention notice under subsection (1), may, by a further notice to that person, revoke the detention notice or release any of the stock from being bound by it.

(4) A person contravenes this section if:

(a) the person does not comply with the requirements of a detention notice given to the person under subsection (1), or

(b) the person moves stock that, to his or her knowledge, are subject to a detention notice given to some other person under subsection (1) from the place specified in the notice.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units.