Queensland Consolidated Acts

LAND PROTECTION (PEST AND STOCK ROUTE MANAGEMENT) ACT 2002 - SECT 45

(1) A person (a supplier) must not supply any thing containing reproductive material of a plant that is--

(a) a class 1 pest; or

(b) a class 2 pest prescribed under a regulation for this section.

Examples of thing--

fodder, grain, gravel, machinery, mulch, packing material, sand, soil, stock, vehicles or water

Maximum penalty--

(a) for a class 1 pest--800 penalty units; or

(b) for a class 2 pest--400 penalty units.

(2) A supplier does not commit an offence against subsection (1)(b) if, before supplying the thing, the supplier gives the person to whom it is supplied a written notice stating the following--

(a) the supplier's name and address;

(b) the thing may contain the reproductive material of a class 2 pest;

(c) the name of the class 2 pest.

(3) Both the supplier and the person to whom the thing is supplied must keep a copy of the written notice given under subsection (2) for 5 years after the notice is given.

Maximum penalty for subsection (3)--10 penalty units.

(4) In this section--

thing does not include a declared pest.