Queensland Consolidated Acts

AGRICULTURAL STANDARDS ACT 1994 - SECT 5

(1) The chief executive may make standards under this Act about agriculture, including, for example, standards about the following—

(a) protecting the genetic purity or other qualities of seed for agriculture;

(b) regulating the ingredients of agricultural requirements;

(c) packing and labelling of agricultural requirements;

(d) selling or using hormonal growth promotants;

(e) marking or non-marking of stock in relation to the use or non-use of hormonal growth promotants;

(f) selling stock.

Examples of standards about labelling—

the way a label must be attached

the legibility of a label

the information to be contained on a label

the durability of a label.

(2) A standard may also make provision about the following—

(a) approvals or licences about agriculture, including, for example, provision about their grant, refusal, renewal, amendment, suspension and cancellation;

(b) things that are prohibited materials or harmful ingredients in agricultural requirements.

(3) A standard may also create offences and prescribe penalties of not more than 20 penalty units for each offence.