Queensland Consolidated Acts

LAND PROTECTION (PEST AND STOCK ROUTE MANAGEMENT) ACT 2002 - SECT 4

The purpose is to be achieved mainly by the following--

(a) establishing principles of pest management for land and stock route network management;

(b) providing for pest management planning and stock route network management planning;

(c) declaring animals and plants to be declared pests;

(d) restricting the introduction, keeping or sale of declared pests;

(e) preventing the spread of declared pests in the State, including, for example, preventing their spread by human activity;

(f) establishing responsibilities for pest and stock route network management;

(g) building and maintaining fences to prevent declared pest animals moving from a part of the State to another part;

(h) establishing the Land Protection (Pest and Stock Route Management) Council to give advice and make recommendations to the Minister about managing pests and the stock route network;

(i) providing for the establishment of pest operational boards;

(j) constructing and maintaining travelling stock facilities on the stock route network;

(k) monitoring, surveying and controlling pests and the movement of travelling stock.