Western Australian Consolidated Regulations

PLANT DISEASES REGULATIONS 1989 - REG 3B

3B .         Bringing plants into the State

        (1)         A person shall not bring into the State any plant unless —

            (a)         the plant is —

                  (i)         native to the State; or

                  (ii)         listed in Schedule 5;

                or

            (b)         the Director General has approved the bringing of that plant into the State and the person complies with any conditions imposed by the Director General.

        Penalty: $5 000.

        (2)         Nothing in this regulation affects the application of regulation 4 if the plant is also referred to in Schedule 1.

        (3)         The fact that a plant brought into the State is native to the State or listed in Schedule 5 does not affect the liability of the person bringing that plant into the State if by doing so the person also brings into the State a plant that is neither native to the State nor listed in Schedule 5.

        (4)         Subregulation (3) applies even if inspection, testing or laboratory analysis at the time the plant was brought into the State did not reveal that the plant was contaminated with a plant that was neither native to the State nor listed in Schedule 5.

        [Regulation 3B inserted in Gazette 6 Jan 1998 p. 48; amended in Gazette 17 Sep 2010 p. 4418.]