Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts In this Part and in
section 129 and the regulations made under that section, unless the contrary
intention appears —
authorised person means any police officer or
officer of the Department;
disease area means a forest disease area
constituted under this Part;
infected means actually affected with a forest
disease, or liable, by reason of contact, to be so affected;
owner , when used in relation to a potential
carrier, means the person to whom it belongs or the hirer, lessee, borrower,
bailee, or mortgagee in possession thereof;
potential carrier means anything capable of
carrying and transmitting forest disease and includes —
(a)
soil, trees, timber, firewood, and forest products; and
(b)
tools; and
(c)
vehicles; and
(d)
machinery; and
(e)
equipment or implements designed and used or capable of being used for
forestry, the production of forest products, timber cutting, timber gathering,
the cutting or gathering of firewood, or earth moving;
public land means —
(a) a
State forest or timber reserve; and
(b) any
land vested in the Crown and not contracted to be granted or transferred in
fee simple and includes —
(i)
land held under pastoral leases and diversification
leases; and
(ii)
land held as mining tenements under the Mining Act 1978
;
and
(c) any
land reserved or dedicated under the Land Administration Act 1997 but the
care, control and management of which are placed with some person other than
the Crown;
risk area means a forest disease risk area
constituted under this Part;
road has the meaning assigned to it in section 6
of the Main Roads Act 1930 , but does not include a main road as defined in
that section; and
vehicle includes —
(a)
every conveyance and every object capable of being propelled or drawn on
wheels or tracks by any means, but not including a train;
(b) an
animal being driven or ridden.
[Section 81 amended: No. 20 of 1991 s. 35; No. 31
of 1997 s. 15(16); No. 4 of 2023 s. 110.]