Skeleton Weed and Resistant Grain Insects (Eradication Funds) Amendment Act 1995 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

SKELETON WEED AND

RESISTANT GRAIN INSECTS

(ERADICATION FUNDS) AMENDMENT ACT 1995

No. 39 of 1995

AN ACT to amend the Skeleton Weed and Resistant Grain

Insects (Eradication Funds) Act 1974.

[Assented to 29 September 1995]

The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Skeleton Weed and Resistant

Grain Insects (Eradication Funds) Amendment Act 1995.

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Principal Act

2. In this Act the Skeleton Weed and Resistant Grain Insects (Eradication Funds) Act 1974* is referred to as the principal Act.

[* Act No. 76 of 1974.

For subsequent amendments see 1994 Index to

Legislation of Western Australia, Table 1, p. 197.1

Section 9 amended

3. Section 9 (5) of the principal Act is amended —

(a)	by deleting the comma after paragraph (r); and
(b)	by deleting the semicolon after paragraph (s) and substituting a comma.

Section 14 amended

4. Section 14 of the principal Act is amended by inserting after

subsection (2) the following subsection —

(3) Subject to the direction of the Minister, no compensation is payable under section 13 in respect of a destroyed crop if, at the time of the destruction —

(a)	the land on which the crop was growing was quarantined under the Agriculture and Related Resources Protection (Property Quarantine) Regulations 1981 made under the Agriculture and Related Resources Protection Act 1976;
(b)	a written direction had been given under that Act to the occupier or owner of that

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land requiring him to harvest that land in

a specified time and manner; and

(c) the owner or occupier had not complied

with that direction.

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Section 18 amended

5. Section 18 of the principal Act is amended by deleting "the

1994-1995 crop year" and substituting the following —

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