Plant Diseases Act Amendment Act 1962 (WA)

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PLANT DISEASES.

11° Elizabeth II., No. LIII.

No. 53 of 1962.

AN ACT to amend the Plant Diseases Act, 1914-1960.

[Assented to 20th November, 1962.]

RE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent

Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of

the Legislative Council and 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 Plant and citation.

Diseases Act Amendment Act, 1962.

(2) In this Act the Plant Diseases Act, 1914-1960, Vol. 4 of The

is referred to as the principal Act.	Reprinted
Acts.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may reprint 9thfor	Aroved
June, 1959.

be cited as the Plant Diseases Act, 1914-1962.	Amended
.A by
Act No. 34
of 1960.

2. Section ten of the principal Act is amended by 2.2.e0nded.

substituting for the words, "Under Secretary" in the last line, the words, "Director of Agriculture".

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S. 12A

amended. 3. Section twelve A of the principal Act is

amended

(a)	by substituting for the passage commenc- ing with the word, "road" in line two down to and including the passage, "1906-1943" in line five, the passage, "municipality constituted under the Local Government Act, 1960"; and
(b)	by substituting for the passage commenc- ing with the word, "road" in line fifteen down to and including the word, "munici- pality" in line nineteen, the passage, "municipal district constituted under the Local Government Act, 1960, or such portion of that municipal district".

S. 12C

amended.	4. Section twelve C of the principal Act is amended by deleting the passage, ", board" in line five of paragraph (b).
S. 13

repealed and 5. Section thirteen of the principal Act is

re-enacted.

repealed and re-enacted with amendments as

follows:—

13. (1) Any inspector may at any time

(a)	with or without assistants, enter upon any orchard, land, or premises or into any house or structure used for the storage of fruit; or
(b)	stop any conveyance or vessel and, with or without assistants, enter into or upon the conveyance or board the vessel,

and may thoroughly search and inspect the same and every part thereof, and everything on or in the same, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the same is infected, and may for that purpose examine plants, fruit, coverings, and goods and other things, and dig up plants, open packages, and do all such other things (whether

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of the same nature as anything mentioned in this subsection or not) as he may deem necessary or expedient.

(2) A person who, being in charge of a conveyance or vessel, fails to stop the convey- ance or vessel when required so to do by a person who makes himself known as being an inspector, commits an offence against this Act.

Penalty: Fifty pounds. .

6.    Section fifteen of the principal Act is amended =ed.

by substituting for the words, "Under Secretary" in line two of subsection (1), the words, "Director of Agriculture".

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Section thirty-eight of the principal Act is amended by substituting for the words, "Under "Secretary" in line six of subsection (2), the words, "Director of Agriculture". amended.

7.

8.    Section thirty-nine of the principal Act is Utided.

amended by adding after paragraph (a) of subsec-

tion (2), the following paragraph:—

(aa) regulate the manner of and procedures for the stopping and inspecting by any inspector of conveyances and vessels under the provisions of this Act; .