New South Wales Consolidated Acts

TIMBER MARKETING ACT 1977 - SECT 13

13 Manufacture of furniture and other articles

(1) A person shall not use in the manufacture of furniture, a prescribed article or an article of a prescribed class or description any timber which:

(a) if a standard has been prescribed that specifies:

(i) the moisture content for that timber or for a class or description of timber to which that timber belongs, and

(ii) the manner of determining that moisture content,

has a moisture content which does not comply, as at the date of sale, with that standard when determined in that manner, or

(b) if no such standard has been prescribed-has a moisture content which, when determined in the prescribed manner, is, as at the date of sale, less than 10 per cent or more than 15 per cent by mass.

(2) It is a defence to a prosecution brought in respect of an offence under this section if the defendant proves that:

(a) the use of the timber was agreed to in writing by the person for whom the furniture, the prescribed article or the article of the prescribed class or description was or was being manufactured, or

(b) the furniture, the prescribed article or the article of the prescribed class or description is for the defendant’s use.