General duties for declared weeds
9E General duties for declared weeds
A person has a duty to:
comply with any weed management plan for a declared weed; and
(b) ensure that, if the person uses a declared weed, the declared weed is used in accordance with any classification of the declared weed under section 7(4)(b), (c) or (d).
(2) Except in accordance with a permit, a person has a duty to not do any of the following:
(a) bring, or be responsible for bringing, a declared weed into the Territory;
propagate or scatter a declared weed;
(c) sell, offer to sell or provide a declared weed or any thing that contains or carries a declared weed;
(d) purchase or offer to purchase a declared weed or any thing that contains or carries a declared weed;
(e) hire or offer for hire to another person any equipment, device or any other thing that contains a declared weed;
(f) hire or request to hire from another person any equipment, device or any other thing that contains a declared weed;
(g) store, grow or use a declared weed or any thing that contains or carries a declared weed;
(h) subject to this section, transport or carry a declared weed or any thing that contains or carries a declared weed.
(3) Despite subsection (2)(h), if a person has a plant that the person thinks may be a declared weed, the person may transport or carry the plant or any thing that contains or carries the plant to:
an officer for the purpose of having it identified; or
a designated weed disposal area.
(4) A plant or thing referred to in subsection (3) must be transported or carried in a sealed container.
(5) If a person transports a declared weed in accordance with a permit, the person has a duty to secure and contain the weed during the course of transporting it.
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