New South Wales Consolidated Acts

TIMBER MARKETING ACT 1977 - SECT 9

9 Sale of articles

(1) A person shall not sell an article having lyctid susceptible sapwood.

(2) It is a defence to a prosecution brought in respect of an offence under subsection (1) if the defendant proves that:

(a) the defendant did not know and could not reasonably be expected to have known that the article had lyctid susceptible sapwood,

(b) before the completion of the sale of that article the defendant gave the purchaser a written statement to the effect that sapwood liable to attack by lyctids was included in that article, or

(c) the completion of the first sale of that article after the inclusion in it of the lyctid susceptible sapwood occurred more than 2 years before the date on which that prosecution was commenced.