New South Wales Consolidated Acts

BIOSECURITY ACT 2015 - SECT 136

136 Destruction requirements

(1) An authorised officer may, under this Part, destroy or require the destruction of a thing only if--

(a) the thing is, or is reasonably suspected of being, prohibited matter, or

(b) the thing is a pest, or

(c) the thing is, or is reasonably suspected of being, infected or infested with, or of harbouring, biosecurity matter that poses a biosecurity risk and there are no other reasonably practicable treatment measures that could eliminate or minimise the biosecurity risk posed by the biosecurity matter, or

(d) the destruction is expressly authorised or required by an emergency order, control order or biosecurity zone regulation.

(2) In this section--

"reasonably practicable" means reasonably practicable in the opinion of the authorised officer.

"reasonably suspected" means reasonably suspected by the authorised officer.