Plant Diseases Amendment Regulations (No. 4) 1996 (WA)

378 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA [14 January 1997

Regulations (No. 4) 1996.

AGRICULTURE

AG301

PLANT DISEASES ACT 1914

PLANT DISEASES AMENDMENT REGULATIONS (No. 4) 1996

Made by His Excellency the Governor in Executive Council.

Citation

1. These regulations may be cited as the Plant Diseases Amendment

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Principal regulations

2. In these regulations the Plant Diseases Regulations 1989*	are referred to
as the principal regulations.

[*

For amendments to 22 October 1996 see 1995 Index to Legislation Published in Gazette 30 June 1989, pp. 1980-93.

214.15 and Gazette 2 February,

of Western Australia, Table 4, pp. 7 June, 20 August and 3 September 1996.1

Regulation 6 amended

3.     Regulation 6 of the principal regulations is amended by repealing

subregulation (3) and substituting the following subregulations -

it

following places - (3) Inspection points referred to in subregulation (1) are at the

(a)	the Port of Fremantle;
(b)	Perth Airport;
(c)	the Department of Agriculture Checkpoint on the Eyre Highway at the Western Australian/South Australian border;
(d)	the Department of Agriculture at Kalgoorlie;
(e)	the Department of Agriculture Checkpoint at Kununurra;
(f)	the East Perth Rail Terminal;
(g)	the Kalgoorlie Rail Terminal;
(h)	the Kewdale rail freight yards;

(i)       the Kalgoorlie rail freight yards;

(j) the Australia Post Depot, Pilbara St, Welshpool.

(4) The driver of a conveyance shall on reaching an inspection

point referred to in subregulation (3) (c) or (e) stop the conveyance and	keep it stationary until permitted by an inspector to proceed.
an offence. (5) A person who fails to comply with subregulation (4) commits

Penalty: $5 000.

Regulation 11 amended

4.      Regulation 11 (1) of the principal regulations is amended by deleting "an

inspector may cause to be erected beside any road a warning sign and

substituting the following -

a warning sign may be erected beside any road ".

Regulation 15 repealed and a regulation substituted

5.      Regulation 15 of the principal regulations is repealed and the following

regulation is substituted -

a

Person in charge of conveyance or consignment may be requested to provide access, unload goods, etc.

15.     (1) An inspector may, in order to facilitate the inspection or

search of a conveyance or consignment under section 13 or 23 of the

Act, request the person in charge of the conveyance or consignment -

(a) to open or otherwise provide access to the conveyance or consignment;

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to unload any goods or things from the conveyance or

(b) forming part of the consignment; or

to open any package or container in or on the conveyance or

(c) forming part of the consignment,

to the satisfaction of the inspector.

(2) If a person fails to comply with a request under

subregulation (1) —

(a) the inspector may do the thing requested or cause it to be

done; and

(b) any costs incurred under paragraph (a) may be recovered by

the Director General in a court of competent jurisdiction up

to an amount of $5 000.

Schedule 8 amended

6.     Schedule 8 to the principal regulations is amended by inserting after

item 7 the following item —

..

7A. Regulation Failure to stop a conveyance or

6 (5)	keep it stationary at an inspection
point 75 If

By His Excellency's Command,

J. PRITCHARD, Clerk of the Council.