Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) The regulations
may provide for —
(a) the
prohibition or regulation of the admission to risk areas or disease areas, and
the use or movement therein, of potential carriers or classes of potential
carriers;
(b) the
regulation of the conduct of persons in respect of potential carriers in risk
areas or disease areas;
(c) the
notification, and the manner of notification, of any occurrence, or suspected
occurrence, of infection and the furnishing by persons of all information
within their power in respect of any such occurrence or suspected occurrence;
(d) the
conferral of power on an authorised person to stop and examine any potential
carrier and to signpost and barricade roads for that purpose;
(e) the
detention, control, removal, treatment, cleansing and quarantine of infected
carriers, or potential carriers or infected earth, soil or trees;
(f) in
respect of an alleged breach of the regulations or any condition, involving a
potential carrier, the circumstances under which the owner of the potential
carrier is deemed to be the person in charge of the potential carrier at the
time of the offence;
(g) the
furnishing by any person in a risk area or a disease area of particulars of
his name and address whenever asked to do so by an authorised person.
(2) Regulations made
under this section may provide minimum penalties, not exceeding $200 and
maximum penalties, not exceeding $2 000 for offences against such regulations
or any condition and may provide daily penalties not exceeding $20 for every
day that such an offence continues after the offender is convicted.