New South Wales Consolidated Acts

BIOSECURITY ACT 2015 - SECT 339

339 Effect of permit

(1) A person is not guilty of an offence against this Act or the regulations under this Act if the person was authorised to engage in the conduct alleged to constitute the offence concerned by a permit in force under this Act.

(2) A permit does not authorise any conduct in contravention of an emergency order, or a biosecurity direction given in the case of an emergency, unless--

(a) the permit is an emergency permit, and

(b) the permit is expressed to apply in relation to the emergency concerned.