Noxious Weeds Act Amendment Act 1960 (WA)

1960.] Noxious Weeds. [No. 30.

NOXIOUS WEEDS.

9° Elizabeth II., No. XXX.

No. 30 of 1960.

AN ACT to amend the Noxious Weeds

Act, 1950-1959.

[Assented to 21st October, 1960.]

RE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Short title

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Noxious and citation.

Weeds Act Amendment Act, 1960.

(2) In this Act the Noxious Weeds Act, 1950-

1959, is referred to as the principal Act.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the Noxious Weeds Act, 1950-1960.

No. 30.] Noxious Weeds. [1960.

S. 22

amended. 2. Section twenty-two of the principal Act is

amended by adding after subsection (2) a subsec-

tion as follows:

(2a) Where the Board intends to so direct by notice in writing pursuant to subsection (1) of this section, the Board shall at least seven days before the notice is served on the owner or occupier of the private land concerned or on both of them, give notice in writing of such its intention to the local authority in whose district the private land is situated.

S. 22A 3. The principal Act is amended by adding after

added.

section twenty-two a section as follows:-

Protection

Board	22A. (1) Without prejudice to the operation
may direct

by public	of the provisions of section twenty-two of this
notice the
destruction	Act, the notice referred to in subsection (1) of
of primary
noxious	that section may be served
weeds.

(a)	by publishing a copy of the notice in the Government Gazette not less than fourteen days before the date on which the measures to be taken by the owner or occupier to destroy the primary noxious weed as specified in the notice, shall commence; and
(b)	by publishing an abstract of the notice in a newspaper circulating generally in the district where the private land specified in the notice is situated, not less than fourteen days before the date so specified.

(2) Any owner or occupier to whom the

notice is directed who

(a)	does not forthwith after the date specified in the notice so served com- mence to comply therewith; or
(b)	having so commenced does not con- tinue such compliance,

commits an offence.

1960.] Noxious Weeds. [No. 30.

Penalty: For a first offence twenty pounds,

and for any subsequent offence, fifty pounds.

(3) The notice may be directed to any

number of owners or occupiers of private land.

4. Section twenty-three of the principal Act is :acted.

amended by substituting for the words, "the last preceding section" in line four the words, "section twenty-two or twenty-two A of this Act."