Plant Quarantine Amendment Act 2005 (TAS)

Plant Quarantine Amendment Act 2005

An Act to amend the Plant Quarantine Act 1997

[Royal Assent 11 July 2005]

Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows:

1Short titleThis Act may be cited as the Plant Quarantine Amendment Act 2005 . 2CommencementThis Act commences on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent. 3Principal ActIn this Act, the Plant Quarantine Act 1997 is referred to as the Principal Act. 4Section 82A insertedAfter section 82 of the Principal Act , the following section is inserted in Division 2: 82APayments under certain agreements (1)  Nothing in section 78(1) is to be taken as preventing the Crown from making, pursuant to a biosecurity (response and cost-sharing) agreement, payments that have the effect of relieving a person from all or part of a liability that the person has incurred, or is likely to incur, under that section. (2)  Nothing in section 80 , 81 or 82 is to be taken as preventing the Crown from making payments to a person pursuant to a biosecurity (response and cost-sharing) agreement. (3)  In this section – biosecurity (response and cost-sharing) agreement means an agreement that – (a) the State is a party to; and (b) furthers the objects of this Act; and (c) has been certified by the Minister to be a biosecurity (response and cost-sharing) agreement for the purposes of this section.

[Second reading presentation speech made in:

House of Assembly on 14 JUNE 2005

Legislative Council on 22 JUNE 2005]