Queensland Consolidated Acts

PLANT PROTECTION ACT 1989

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

           Contents

           Part 1--Preliminary

   1.      Short title
   2.      Objectives of Act
   3.      Definitions
   4.      Pest declarations
   5.      Exercise of pest infestation powers
   6.      Power for corresponding laws

           Part 2--Appointment of inspectors and authorised persons

           Division 1--Inspectors

   6A.     Appointing inspectors
   6B.     Limiting inspectors' powers
   6C.     Inspectors' appointment conditions

           Division 2--Authorised persons

   6D.     Appointing authorised persons
   6E.     Functions
   6F.     Appointment conditions and limit on powers
   6G.     When authorised person ceases to hold office
   6H.     Resignation

           Division 3--Identity cards

   6I.     Issue of identity card
   6J.     Production or display of identity card
   6K.     Return of identity card

           Part 3--Pest control

           Division 1--Pest control measures under subordinate legislation

   6L.     Purpose of powers
   6M.     Meaning of business movement for area
   6N.     Meaning of business document for area
   6O.     Meaning of serious pest
   6P.     Declaration of pest as serious pest by regulation or gazette notice
   7.      Registration of certain places
   8.      Control over introduction of pests
   9.      Control over spread of pest infestations within Queensland
   10.     Crop plant district
   11.     Pest quarantine area
   11A.    Approved plant variety
   11B.    Review of particular decisions and actions
   11C.    Keeping a business document for an area
   11D.    Keeping a document that becomes a business document for an area
   11E.    Production of business documents
   11F.    Failure to comply with requirement about a document
   12.     Notification of pests

           Division 2--Other pest control measures

   13.     Special powers in relation to specific pest infestations
   14.     Destruction of healthy crop to prevent pest infestation
   15.     Special powers in respect of volunteer plants

           Division 3--Enforcement

   16.     Completion of unsatisfied requirements
   17.     Costs and expenses
   18.     Charge on land
   19.     General powers of inspectors
   19A.    Inspectors' powers—certificates
   20.     Warrants to enter
   20AA.   Information requirement for pest infestation
   20A.    Inspectors' powers—imminent risk of infestation

           Division 4--Surveillance to establish presence or absence of pest

   20B.    Chief executive may authorise pest surveillance program
   20C.    Purpose of pest surveillance program
   20D.    Circumstances required for pest surveillance program
   20E.    Taking action under a pest surveillance program

           Part 4--Accreditation

           Division 1--Accreditation

   21.     Purpose and operation of accreditation system
   21A.    Accreditation
   21B.    Refusal to grant accreditation
   21C.    Accreditation conditions
   21D.    Register

           Division 2--Cancellation, suspension and amendment

   21E.    Cancellation and suspension—grounds
   21F.    Amendment of accreditation
   21G.    Cancellation suspension and amendment—procedures
   21H.    Return of cancelled suspended or amended accreditation

           Division 3--Offences about accreditation

   21I.    Contravention of accreditation conditions
   21J.    Offences about certification

           Part 5--Intergovernmental agreements

   21K.    Purpose of intergovernmental agreements
   21L.    Intergovernmental agreements

           Part 5A--Government and industry cost sharing agreements

   21LA.   Entering into agreement
   21LB.   Content of agreement

           Part 6--Provisions about administrative decisions

           Division 1--General provision

   21LC.   Failure to decide particular decisions taken to be refusal

           Division 2--Reconsideration of decisions

   21M.    Application for reconsideration of administrative decisions
   21N.    Decision on reconsideration

           Division 3--Appeal to court

   21O.    Right to appeal to the Magistrates Court
   21P.    How to start appeal
   21Q.    Stay of operation of decisions
   21R.    Powers of Magistrates Court on appeal
   21S.    Effect of Magistrates Court's decision on appeal
   21T.    Appeals

           Part 7--Miscellaneous

   22.     Duty to comply with notice given to 1 of several owners
   23.     False or misleading information
   23A.    False, misleading or incomplete documents
   24.     Obstruction
   25.     Voluntary forfeiture to Crown
   26.     Dealing with seized matters or things
   27.     Right of entry in order to comply with this Act
   28.     Limitation of action
   29.     Liability for offence as employee
   29A.    Executive officers must ensure corporation complies with Act
   30.     Modes of service
   31.     Delegation by chief executive
   32.     Prosecution of offences
   32A.    Limitation on time for starting proceedings
   33.     Evidence
   34.     Approval of forms
   35.     Regulation-making power

           Part 8--Transitional and validation provisions for Plant Protection Amendment Act 2004

   36.     Definitions for pt 8
   37.     Validation of relevant pest quarantine instruments
   38.     Application of s 11D for particular business documents
   39.     Application of s 21M to particular decisions in interim period
           SCHEDULE 1 SERIOUS PESTS
           SCHEDULE 2 DICTIONARY
           Endnotes