Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) Subject to the
Minister and to the provisions of this Act and the Agriculture Protection Act,
the powers and duties of the Protection Board shall include the
following —
(a)
making investigations and enquiries into and formulating schemes for
efficiently —
(i)
controlling, and prohibiting and regulating the
introduction of, declared plants;
(ii)
controlling, and prohibiting and regulating the
introduction and keeping of, declared animals;
(b)
ensuring that the provisions of this Act and the Agriculture Protection Act
are efficiently carried into effect throughout the State and co-ordinating the
implementation, in the various zones and regions, of policies, schemes and
programmes formulated under this Act or that Act;
(c)
authorising and directing the expenditure of moneys standing to the credit of
the Protection Account and the Control Account for the purposes of this Act
and the Agriculture Protection Act generally and, in particular, for
implementing policies, schemes and programmes formulated under this Act or
that Act;
(d)
conducting, or arranging for the conduct of, experiments on and in relation to
declared plants and declared animals;
(e)
maintaining, improving, altering, repairing and renewing any barrier fence and
any other structure or source of water supply upon the land upon which the
barrier fence is erected and any machinery, implement, livestock, vehicles or
other plant, used in connection with the maintenance, improvement, alteration
or renewal of barrier fences;
(f)
controlling, regulating and prohibiting the sale, acquisition or use of any
apparatus, appliance, thing or substance offered or represented or which may
be offered or represented as suitable for use in the control of declared
plants or declared animals;
(g)
purchasing, taking on lease, or otherwise acquiring, upon such terms and
conditions as the Minister may approve, any real or personal property
whatsoever as the Protection Board may think requisite for carrying into
effect the objects and purposes of this Act or the Agriculture Protection Act,
and from time to time selling, exchanging, letting, or otherwise disposing of
any real or personal property acquired by or vested in the Protection Board
for the purposes of this Act or the Agriculture Protection Act;
(h)
purchasing equipment and purchasing or manufacturing materials for the control
of declared plants and declared animals for resale or sale to any local
government or other person or body who or which is responsible for such
control pursuant to the provisions of any Act at cost price plus such amounts
as are determined by the Protection Board being —
(i)
an amount representing handling, forwarding,
administration and other costs incidental to the purchase of such equipment or
the purchase or manufacture of such materials; and
(ii)
an amount to be paid to a reserve account kept pursuant
to section 16;
(i)
borrowing in such manner and subject to such conditions
as to borrowing and expenditure as the Treasurer specifies, such sum or sums
as shall not at any one time exceed $500 000 for meeting expenses
incurred or likely to be incurred in the control of, or the prohibition or
regulation of the introduction of, declared plants or declared animals;
(j)
making advances to local governments, or other bodies or persons, for the
control of declared plants and declared animals;
(k)
paying bonuses at such rates, for such periods, for destruction of such
declared animals in such zones, regions or other areas as may, for the
purposes of this paragraph, subject to subsection (3), from time to time
be fixed by the Protection Board by declaration;
(l)
employing such officers and other employees as are necessary for the purposes
of carrying out the powers and duties conferred and imposed upon the
Protection Board by this or any other Act;
(m) with
the approval of the Minister for Public Sector Management 2 , determining the
terms and conditions of appointment and employment of the officers and
employees employed pursuant to paragraph (l);
(n) with
the consent of the Minister of the Crown charged with the administration of
any Government department, making use, for the purpose of carrying out the
provisions of this Act or any other Act, of the services of any person
employed in that department; and
(o)
generally doing all such acts, matters and things as the Protection Board
shall consider necessary or conducive to the control of, or the prohibition or
regulation of the introduction of, declared plants or the control of, or the
prohibition or regulation of the introduction or keeping of, declared animals,
and as the Protection Board is authorised to do under the provisions of this
or any other Act.
(2) The Protection
Board may sell and supply poison pursuant to subsection (1)(h)
notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the
Poisons Act 1964 .
(3) The rates of
bonuses fixed under subsection (1)(k) in respect of a class of declared
animals in respect of any one zone, region or area —
(a)
shall be uniform throughout that zone, region or area;
(b) may
differ from those fixed in respect of another zone, region or area;
(c)
shall not exceed such amount as is prescribed in respect of that class.
[Section 8 inserted by No. 25 of 1976
s. 7; amended by No. 32 of 1994 s. 19; No. 14 of 1996
s. 4; No. 49 of 1996 s. 64; No. 9 of 1998 s. 4;
No. 77 of 2006 s. 17.]