Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) The Governor may
make regulations which appear to him to be necessary or convenient for
effectually carrying out the objects and purposes of this Act and may
prescribe as the maximum penalty for a breach of the regulations, which is not
a continuing breach, a penalty not exceeding $2 000, and where the breach
is a continuing breach, such maximum penalty as does not exceed $2 000
and an additional amount of $200 for each day during which the breach
continues.
(2) Without affecting
the generality of the power conferred by subsection (1), the Governor by
the regulations —
(a) may
require the owner or occupier of premises to make such preparations in or on
the premises as are specified by the regulations or in writing by an
authorised person, for facilitating or ensuring the effective carrying out of
treatment under this Act of the premises;
(b) may,
where treatment of premises has been carried out under this Act, prohibit
within such period of the treatment as is specified in the regulations, the
owner or occupier of the premises from adversely affecting the treatment in
any manner specified by the regulations or in writing by an authorised person,
including watering, top-dressing, burning-off, or digging-in any part of the
premises which has received treatment;
(c) may
authorise the Minister, where the owner or occupier of premises has not
complied with the requirements of, or requisitioned under, the regulations to
cause the requirements to be carried out at his expense and, without
prejudicing his liability, if any, to penalty, to recover the amount expended
from him in a court of competent jurisdiction; and
(d) may
prohibit, or impose restrictions on, the doing or omission of anything which
will result, or be likely to result, in ants being introduced into an area
which is free of ants or is about to be, is being, or has been subjected to
treatment.
[Section 16 amended by No. 20 of 1989
s. 3.]