New South Wales Consolidated Acts

TIMBER MARKETING ACT 1977 - SECT 13A

13A Sale of furniture and other articles

(1) A person shall not sell any furniture, prescribed article or article of a prescribed class or description which contains any timber which:

(a) if the moisture content of that timber is clearly shown on the invoice or docket of sale for the furniture or article-has a moisture content which does not comply, as at the date of sale, with the moisture content so shown when determined in the prescribed manner, or

(b) if no moisture content as referred to in paragraph (a) is so shown:

(i) if a standard has been prescribed that specifies the moisture content for that timber or for a class or description of timber to which that timber belongs and 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

(ii) 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 subsection (1) (b) (i) or (ii) if the defendant proves that the defendant did not know and could not reasonably be expected to have known that the moisture content of the timber contravened the requirements of that subparagraph.