Victorian Current Acts

CONTROL OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS ACT 2004

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Purposes  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Definitions  

   PART 2--ORDERS DESIGNATING AREAS

   4.      Minister may make orders designating areas  
   5.      Effect and publication of order  
   6.      Exemptions  
   7.      Determination of threshold amounts  
   8.      Variation and revocation of orders  
   9.      Making and varying of orders subject to disallowance  
   10.     Minister may seek advice etc.  
   11.     Reference to other documents  
   12.     Later order prevails over earlier order  

   PART 3--MONITORING AND ENFORCEMENT

   13.     Appointment of authorised officers  
   14.     Inspection powers under the Gene Technology Act 2001  
   15.     Forfeiture of GM crops and GM crop related material  
   16.     Appeals concerning forfeiture  

   PART 4--OFFENCES

   17.     Offence to contravene an order  
   18.     Offence by gene technology provider  
   19.     Offence to give false or misleading information  
   20.     Offence to interfere with or impersonate authorised officers  
   21.     Offences by bodies corporate  
   22.     Offences by unincorporated associations  
   23.     Attempts to commit offences  
   24.     Defence of due diligence  

   PART 5--OTHER MATTERS

   25.     Delegation by the Minister  
   26.     Regulations  
   27.      Act binds the Crown  
   28.     Schedule  
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