Plant Diseases Act Amendment Act 1939 (WA)

1939.] Plant Diseases. [No. 5.

PLANT DISEASES.

3° GEO. VI., No. V.

No. 5 of 1939.

AN ACT to amend section eighteen of the Plant

Diseases Act, 1914-1935.

[Assented to 5th October, 1939.]

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty,by and with the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in tins present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1. This Act may be cited as the Plant Diseases Act short title.

Amendment Act, 1939, and shall be read as one with the et 740. of	1935, B. 5.
Plant Diseases Act, 1914-1935 (No. 23 of 1914), herein- after referred to as the principal Act.

2.    Section eighteen of the principal Act is amended by Amendment

18.

inserting therein after subsection (2) a new subsection

as follows:—

(2a) The owner of the orchard in which plants arc

destroyed under the authority of and in accordance

with the provisions of tins section shall be liable for

the payment of any expenses incurred in connection

with the destruction of such plants.

3.    The principal Act as amended by this Act may be citation of

pr in cipal A t

cited as the Plant Diseases Act, 19144939. as ame nded Ac