Plant Diseases Act Amendment Act 1974 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

PLANT DISEASES.

No. 3 of 1974.

AN ACT to amend the Plant Diseases Act, 1914-1973.

[Assented to 19th September, 1974.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, 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 Plant and citation.

Diseases Act Amendment Act, 1974.

Reprinted as

(2) In this Act the Plant Diseases Act, 1914-

approved for

reprint

1973 is referred to as the principal Act.

8th July,

1971 and as

amended by

Act No. 19

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act of 1973.

may be cited as the Plant Diseases Act, 1914-1974.

No. 3.] Plant Diseases. [1974.

Commence-

ment. 2. This Act shall come into operation on a date

to be fixed by proclamation.

Section 4

amended. 3. Section 4 of the principal Act is amended by

deleting the interpretation "Under Secretary".

Section 120

amended. 4.

Subsection (1) of section 12C of the principal Act is amended by deleting item (I) of subpara- graph (v) of paragraph (d) and substituting the following item

(I) fix the scale of charges for the baiting or spraying carried out by or on behalf of the Committee, which charges shall not exceed the amounts prescribed in the Schedule to this Act; .

Schedule

added. 5. The principal Act is amended by adding at

the end thereof a Schedule as follows

SCHEDULE. S. 12C (1) (d) (v) (I).

SCALE OF MAXIMUM CHARGES PER ANNUM

FOR BAITING OR SPRAYING

(a) Where the number of plants on an orchard does not exceed 100 plants

Maximum

Plants. Charge.

1   4.00

2   5.00

3   6.00

4   7.00

5   8.00

6   9.00

7   10.00

8   11.00

9	....	12.00
10	..	13.00
11-15	14.00
16-20	15.00
21-30	16.00
31-40	17.00
41-50	18.00
51-100	20.00

1974.] Plant Diseases. [No. 3.

(b) Where the number of plants on an orchard exceeds 100 plants

For the first 100 plants	. 20.00
For every subsequent 100 plants or fraction

of 100

For the purposes of this Schedule four grape vines or

fraction of four shall be regarded as one plant. .