Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AGRICULTURAL AND VETERINARY CHEMICALS (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1992 - SECT 69EM

Restraining injunctions

  (1)   If a person has engaged, is engaging or is proposing to engage, in conduct that constitutes an offence against this Act or the Collection Act or a contravention of a civil penalty provision, a court of competent jurisdiction may, on application by any person, grant an injunction:

  (a)   restraining the first - mentioned person from engaging in the conduct; and

  (b)   if, in the court's opinion, it is desirable to do so--requiring the first - mentioned person to do a thing.

Performance injunctions

  (2)   If:

  (a)   a person has refused or failed, or is refusing or failing, or is proposing to refuse or fail, to do a thing; and

  (b)   the refusal or failure was, is or would be, an offence against this Act or the Collection Act or a contravention of a civil penalty provision;

the court may, on application by any person, grant an injunction requiring the first - mentioned person to do that thing.

Grant of interim injunctions

  (3)   Before deciding an application for an injunction under this section, the court may grant an interim injunction:

  (a)   restraining a person from engaging in conduct; or

  (b)   requiring a person to do a thing.