Victorian Consolidated Legislation

CONTROL OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS ACT 2004

No. 7 of 2004
Version incorporating amendments as at 16 November 2007

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Section Page

   PART 1-PRELIMINARY

   1.      Purposes
   2.      Commencement
   3.      Definitions

   PART 2-ORDERS DESIGNATING AREAS

   4.      Minister may make orders designating areas
   5.      Effect and publication of order
   6.      Exemptions
   7.      Determination of threshold amounts
   8.      Variation and revocation of orders
   9.      Making and varying of orders subject to disallowance
   10.     Minister may seek advice etc.
   11.     Reference to other documents
   12.     Later order prevails over earlier order

   PART 3-MONITORING AND ENFORCEMENT

   13.     Appointment of authorised officers
   14.     Inspection powers under the Gene Technology Act 2001.
   15.     Forfeiture of GM crops and GM crop related material
   16.     Appeals concerning forfeiture

   PART 4-OFFENCES

   17.     Offence to contravene an order
   18.     Offence by gene technology provider
   19.     Offence to give false or misleading information
   20.     Offence to interfere with or impersonate authorised officers
   21.     Offences by bodies corporate
   22.     Offences by unincorporated associations
   23.     Attempts to commit offences
   24.     Defence of due diligence

   PART 5-OTHER MATTERS

   25.     Delegation by the Minister
   26.     Regulations
   27.     Act binds the Crown
   28.     Schedule
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           SCHEDULE-Order Prohibiting the Cultivation of Certain Genetically Modified Canola Crops in Victoria
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           ENDNOTES
           1. General Information
           2. Table of Amendments
           3. Explanatory Details