South Australian Repealed Acts

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NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT ACT 2004 - SECT 187

187—Ability of Minister to control or quarantine any animal or plant

        (1)         For the purposes of providing for the control of, or preventing the spread of, any animal or plant to which a provision of this Part applies, or the spread of any disease that may be carried by such an animal or plant, the Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, declare a portion of the State specified in the notice to be a quarantine area under this section.

        (2)         A notice under subsection (1) may—

            (a)         prohibit or restrict the movement from or within the quarantine area of—

                  (i)         any animal or plant of a specified kind;

                  (ii)         any soil, vehicle, farm implement or other produce, goods, material or thing of a specified kind,

that might, in the opinion of the Minister, spread the relevant animals or plants or any disease;

            (b)         require the owner of any land or the occupier of any premises within the quarantine area to take measures (including the destruction of animals or plants), specified in the notice, that are, in the opinion of the Minister, necessary to control, or to prevent the spread of, the relevant animals or plants, or the spread of any disease;

            (c)         require the owner of any land or the occupier of any premises within specified parts of the quarantine area to take more stringent measures (including the destruction of animals or plants), specified in the notice, than owners or occupiers of other land or premises within the quarantine area;

            (d)         prohibit the planting or propagation of plants, or plants of a specified kind, within the quarantine area during a period specified in the notice;

            (e)         prohibit absolutely or subject to exceptions or conditions specified in the notice, the importing into the quarantine area of any animal, plant, soil, produce, goods, material or other thing of a specified kind;

            (f)         provide that a prohibition or requirement under the notice will not apply in specified circumstances;

            (g)         provide for any other matter prescribed by the regulations.

        (3)         A notice under subsection (1) will have effect from a date specified in the notice.

        (4)         The Minister may, by subsequent notice in the Gazette, vary or revoke a notice under subsection (1) .

        (5)         The Minister may, by notice in writing, confer exemptions from the operation of a notice, or specified parts of a notice, under this section.

        (6)         An exemption under subsection (5) may be granted on such conditions as the Minister thinks fit.

        (7)         The Minister may, by subsequent notice in writing—

            (a)         vary or revoke an exemption; or

            (b)         vary or revoke a condition of an exemption, or impose a new condition.

        (8)         A person who contravenes or fails to comply with—

            (a)         a notice under this section; or

            (b)         a condition of an exemption under this section,

is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: $100 000 or imprisonment for 2 years.

Expiation fee: $500.