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PLANT QUARANTINE AMENDMENT BILL 59 OF 2007

                                    TASMANIA

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               PLANT QUARANTINE AMENDMENT BILL 2007
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                                   CONTENTS
          1.      Short title
          2.      Commencement
          3.      Principal Act
          4.      Section 101A inserted
                    101A. False or misleading statements




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              PLANT QUARANTINE AMENDMENT BILL 2007
             (Brought in by the Minister for Primary Industries and Water,
                      the Honourable David Edward Llewellyn)

                                    A BILL FOR

            An Act to amend the Plant Quarantine Act 1997


            Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by
            and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and
            House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows:



                1. Short title
                          This Act may be cited as the Plant Quarantine
                          Amendment Act 2007.


                2. Commencement
                          This Act commences on the day on which this
                          Act receives the Royal Assent.


                3. Principal Act
                          In this Act, the Plant Quarantine Act 1997* is
                          referred to as the Principal Act.




       *No. 62 of 1997

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              Plant Quarantine Amendment Act 2007
                           Act No. of
s. 4


       4. Section 101A inserted

                 After section 101 of the Principal Act, the
                 following section is inserted in Division 6:

         101A.    False or misleading statements

                  (1)     A person must not, in making any
                          application or giving any information
                          under this Act ­

                            (a)   make a statement knowing it to
                                  be false or misleading; or

                            (b)   omit any matter from a statement
                                  knowing that without that matter
                                  the statement is misleading.

                        Penalty: Fine not exceeding 50 penalty
                                 units.

                  (2)     A person must not make any statement
                          about a plant, plant product, agricultural
                          or other equipment, premises, organism,
                          pest or disease or the production,
                          importation into the State or movement
                          of a plant, plant product, agricultural or
                          other equipment, organism, pest or
                          disease that is false, or misleading, and
                          likely to cause a person who relies on the
                          statement to commit an offence under
                          this Act.

                        Penalty: Fine not exceeding 50 penalty
                                 units.



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Plant Quarantine Amendment Act 2007
             Act No. of
                                                         s. 4


    (3)     A person must not make a statement that
            is false or misleading in answer to a
            question or inquiry by an inspector or the
            Secretary.

          Penalty: Fine not exceeding 50 penalty
                   units.




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