South Australian Consolidated Acts

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL ACT 1986 - SECT 5

5—Relevant laws

        (1)         Where a law of the Commonwealth or of a State other than South Australia—

            (a)         provides for the control by biological means of organisms causing harm; and

            (b)         establishes an authority having similar functions to those of the Authority,

the Authority may, by notice published in the Gazette, declare that law to be a relevant law for the purposes of this Act.

        (2)         A declaration shall not be made under subsection (1) in respect of a law unless the Minister administering that law consents in writing to the declaration being made.

        (3)         A declaration made under subsection (1) shall cease to have effect in respect of a law if that law ceases to be a law described in subsection (1)(a) and (b).