Queensland Consolidated Acts

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL ACT 1987 - SECT 5

5 Relevant laws

(1) Where a law of another State or the Commonwealth—

(a) provides for the control by biological means of organisms causing harm; and

(b) establishes an authority having similar functions to those of the Authority;

the Authority may, by notification published in the Gazette, declare that law to be a relevant law for the purposes of this Act.

(2) A declaration shall not be made under subsection (1) in respect of a law unless the Minister administering that law consents in writing to the declaration being made.

(3) A declaration made under subsection (1) shall cease to have effect in respect of a law if that law ceases to be a law described in subsection (1) (a) and (b) .