Western Australian Consolidated Acts

PLANT DISEASES ACT 1914 - SECT 17A

17A .         Powers under the Agricultural Produce Commission Act 1988

        (1)         Any officers, employees and other persons engaged by a growers’ committee under section 12(2) of the Agricultural Produce Commission Act 1988  ⁵ may, when authorised by a growers’ committee elected to administer a fruit fly foliage baiting scheme, enter any orchard within the specified area to bait or spray all or any of the fruit trees and fruit vines in the manner and with the materials determined by the growers’ committee.

        (2)         In subsection (1) specified area means the portion of the State specified in a notice under section 11(1)(a)(ii) of the Agricultural Produce Commission Act 1988  ⁵ in relation to which the growers’ committee is appointed.

        [Section 17A inserted by No. 40 of 1993 s. 11.]