Plant Diseases Act Amendment Act (No. 2) 1949 (WA)

PLANT DISEASES (No. 2).

13° Geo. VI., No. LXXXIX.

No. 3 of 1949.

AN ACT to amend the Plant Diseases Aet, 1914-1947

[Assented to 24th August, 1949.]

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 this 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 (No. 2) 1949, and shall be read as one

with the Plant Diseases Act, 1914-1947 (Act No. 23 of 1914 as reprinted pursuant to the Amendments Ineom

No. 3.] Plant Diseases (No. 2). [1949.

poration Act, 1938, in Volume 2 of the Reprinted Acts of the Parliament of Western Australia, 1943, and amended by Acts Nos. 25 of 1946 and 35 of 1947), hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.

Citation of

Principal Act 2. The principal Act as amended by this Act may be

as amended

by this Act. cited as the Plant Diseases Act, 1914-1949.

Amendment

nt s. 4. 3. Section four of the principal Act is amended by

(a) deleting the word "parasite" in line one of the definition of "Disease" and substituting therefor, the word "pest"; and

(b) inserting after the definition of "Owner" a new

definition as follows

"Pest" means any fungus, virus, insect, mite, mollusc or nematode and such animal or plant groups of a parasitic nature as are declared by proclamation to be pests.

Amendment

of s. 38.	4. Section thirty-eight of the principal Act is amended by deleting from line two of subparagraph (ii) of para- graph (b) of subsection (1) the word "and."
Amendment
of s. 39.	5. Section thirty-nine of the principal Act is amended by deleting the words "animal or vegetable parasites which commonly attack or are" in lines three and four of paragraph (f) of subsection (2) and substituting therefor, the words "any pest which commonly attacks or is."