Queensland Consolidated Acts

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL ACT 1987 - SECT 3

3 Definitions

(1) In this Act—

"agent application" means an application under section 20 .

"agent organisms" means organisms in respect of which there is in force a declaration by the Authority, under section 27 , 28 , 29 or 32 , that the organisms are agent organisms for the purposes of this Act.

"agent recommendation" means a recommendation to the Authority by the Council that organisms of a particular kind should be declared to be agent organisms for the purposes of this Act.

"Australia" includes the external Territories (if any) in respect of which a declaration under section 4 (1) of the Commonwealth Act is in force.

"Authority" means the Queensland Biological Control Authority established by section 8 .

"Commonwealth Act" means the Biological Control Act 1984 (Cwlth) .

"control" , in relation to organisms, includes—

(a) reduce the number of those organisms; and

(b) prevent an increase in the number of those organisms; and

(c) reduce the activity or appetite of some or all of those organisms; and

(d) modify the behaviour or characteristics of some or all of those organisms.

"Council" means—

(a) the standing ministerial council established or recognised by the Council of Australian Governments of which its members include Commonwealth and State ministers with portfolio responsibility for primary industries; or

(b) if another body is prescribed by regulation—the prescribed body.

"kind" , in relation to live organisms, viruses or sub-viral agents, means species, subspecies or variety.

"organisation" includes—

(a) a body corporate; and

(b) an association or other body of persons; and

(c) an association that consists of 2 or more organisations referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b).

"organism" means—

(a) an organism (whether alive or dead and whether or not indigenous to Australia) other than a human; or

(b) a part of, or matter discharged from, an organism within the meaning of paragraph (a); or

(c) a virus or sub-viral agent.

"person" includes an organisation.

"prescribed live organisms" ...

"prescribed organisms" —

(a) means organisms that are—

(i) live organisms; or

(ii) viruses or sub-viral agents; but

(b) does not include live vaccines or resistant cultivars.

"relevant law" means a law declared by the Authority under section 5 to be a relevant law for the purposes of this Act.

"State" includes the Northern Territory.

"target application" means an application under section 11 .

"target organisms" means organisms in respect of which there is in force a declaration by the Authority, under section 18 , 28 , 29 or 32 , that the organisms are target organisms for the purposes of this Act.

"target recommendation" means a recommendation to the Authority by the Council that organisms of a particular kind should be declared to be target organisms for the purposes of this Act.

"Territory" does not include the Northern Territory.