Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Catchment and Land Protection Act 1994 - SECT 47D

Offence to fail to comply with notice

47D. Offence to fail to comply with notice



(1) If there is on land within a priority area, a noxious weed or pest animal
of the category specified in the priority area notice, and if the land owner
of the land has been served with a copy of the notice under section 47C, the
land owner-

   (a)  must take one or more of the measures that are specified in the
        notice, in accordance with the notice, on that land; and

   (b)  must take those measures within the time specified in the notice for
        taking measures.

Penalty: 20 penalty units.



(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a land owner to the extent that any land
management notice that has been served on that land owner applies to the same
noxious weed or pest animal and the same land as that to which the priority
area notice applies.