Biosecurity Act 1993

Administrative provisions - Administrative powers

121A: Power to apply article or substance to place

You could also call this:

"Inspectors can leave special items at a place to help check for pests"

An inspector or authorised person can bring something to a place to check if there are any pests or unwanted organisms there, or to see how well measures to get rid of them are working. They can leave the thing at the place for a reasonable time. You must not move or interfere with the thing they left there without a good reason.

The thing they bring can be no bigger than one cubic metre, unless the law says it is okay to be bigger. If you are an inspector or authorised person, you can bring the thing to the place to help you do your job.

You should not touch the thing if you are not supposed to, because it might be helping to check for pests or unwanted organisms, or to help get rid of them.

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Part 6Administrative provisions
Administrative powers

121APower to apply article or substance to place

  1. An inspector or authorised person may, for the purpose of ascertaining the presence or absence of any pest or unwanted organism, or of assessing measures taken to eradicate or manage any pest or unwanted organism, bring onto and leave for a reasonable time at any place, any article or substance.

  2. An article or substance brought onto or left at any place must have a volume no greater than 1 cubic metre unless the article or substance is specified in regulations made under this Act.

  3. No person may, without reasonable excuse, move or interfere with any article or substance left at a place by an inspector or authorised person pursuant to this section.

Notes
  • Section 121A: inserted, on , by section 81 of the Biosecurity Amendment Act 1997 (1997 No 89).
  • Section 121A(1): amended, on , by section 50 of the Biosecurity Law Reform Act 2012 (2012 No 73).
  • Section 121A(1): amended, on , by section 20 of the Biosecurity Amendment Act 2003 (2003 No 38).