Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

NOXIOUS WEEDS ACT 1921

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

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   1.      This Act may be cited as the Noxious Weeds Act 1921.1  
   2.      In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears—“inspector” means an inspector under section 6A; “Land” includes any estate or interest in land; “Noxious weeds” includes any plants that are by notice in the Gazette declared from time to time by the Minister to be noxious weeds under this Act; “Owner” includes occupier, lessee, licensee, manager, or other person entitled to any land whether on his own account, or as agent, trustee, or attorney.  
   4.      The Minister may by notice in the Gazette declare any plant to be a noxious weed under this Act, and may from time to time, as occasion requires, remove any plant from the list of noxious weeds under this Act.  
   5.      (1) The Minister may give notice to owners specifying the plants which have been declared to be noxious weeds.  
   6.      In the event of the owner failing to comply with the requirements of any notice within the time specified in the notice, an inspector may, with a sufficient number of assistants, enter upon the land in respect whereof the notice has been given and carry out all things required by the notice to be done; and may recover from the owner of the land by proceedings before a Court of competent jurisdiction, together with the costs of such proceedings, all expenses incurred in carrying out the requirements of the notice.  
   6A.     6A. (1) There may be 1 or more inspectors for the purposes of this Act.  
   7.      (1) If the owner of any land is unknown or does not reside within the Territory, and has no known agent resident within the Territory, the Minister, after an order for payment of expenses and costs has been obtained in the last preceding section, shall send notice of the order in a registered letter to the last-known place of address of the owner, or, if the address of the owner is not known, shall publish notice of the order in four consecutive numbers of the Gazette, or in some newspaper circulating in the neighbourhood of the land, and, after a period of twelve months from the date of the order, if the said expenses and all costs thereof have not been paid may sell by public auction the land or so much thereof as is required for the purposes aforesaid and may execute a conveyance thereof to the purchaser.  
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