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TASMANIA
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PLANT QUARANTINE AMENDMENT BILL 2005
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CONTENTS
1. Short title
2. Commencement
3. Principal Act
4. Section 82A inserted
82A. Payments under certain agreements
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PLANT QUARANTINE AMENDMENT BILL 2005
(Brought in by the Minister for Primary Industries and Water,
the Honourable Steven Kons)
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Plant Quarantine Act 1997
Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by
and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and
House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows:
1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Plant Quarantine
Amendment Act 2005.
2. Commencement
This Act commences on the day on which this
Act receives the Royal Assent.
3. Principal Act
In this Act, the Plant Quarantine Act 1997* is
referred to as the Principal Act.
*No. 62 of 1997
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s. 4 No. Plant Quarantine Amendment 2005
4. Section 82A inserted
After section 82 of the Principal Act, the
following section is inserted in Division 2:
82A. Payments under certain agreements
(1) Nothing in section 78(1) is to be taken as
preventing the Crown from making,
pursuant to a biosecurity (response and
cost-sharing) agreement, payments that
have the effect of relieving a person from
all or part of a liability that the person
has incurred, or is likely to incur, under
that section.
(2) Nothing in section 80, 81 or 82 is to be
taken as preventing the Crown from
making payments to a person pursuant to
a biosecurity (response and cost-sharing)
agreement.
(3) In this section -
"biosecurity (response and cost-
sharing) agreement" means an
agreement that -
(a) the State is a party to; and
(b) furthers the objects of this
Act; and
(c) has been certified by the
Minister to be a
biosecurity (response and
cost-sharing) agreement
for the purposes of this
section.
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