South Australian Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS ACT 1955 - SECT 11

11—Standards

        (1)         A person shall not sell, offer for sale, expose for sale or have in his possession for the purpose of sale an agricultural chemical which does not comply with the prescribed standard applicable to that agricultural chemical.

Penalty:

if the offender is a body corporate—$40 000; or

if the offender is a natural person—$20 000.

        (2)         In proceedings for an offence against subsection (1) of this section, it shall be a defence that—

            (a)         at the time the offence is alleged to have been committed, the agricultural chemical was contained in a package; and

            (b)         the agricultural chemical was contained in the package at the time the defendant acquired the agricultural chemical; and

            (c)         the defendant believed on reasonable grounds that the agricultural chemical complied with the prescribed standard.