New South Wales Consolidated Acts

TIMBER MARKETING ACT 1977 - SECT 16

16 Sale of preservative treated timber

(1) A person shall not sell any timber:

(a) described by the person or the person’s servants or agents as being preservative treated, or

(b) described or presented by the person or the person’s servants or agents in such manner as to convey or be likely to convey to any person the impression that that timber is preservative treated,

unless that timber is treated by means of an approved preservative treatment and is branded with the registered brand in accordance with the conditions of the approval.

(2) A person need not comply with the requirement that timber be branded if the timber is of a prescribed class or description but (if the quantity of any such timber sold is 2 or more pieces and the sale is the first sale of the timber in New South Wales) the person shall ensure that:

(a) the invoice or docket of sale, and

(b) if the timber is sold in a pre-wrapped form, the wrapping,

bear a facsimile of the registered brand.