Spreading or releasing particular parts of non-native plants

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(1)

This section applies to a plant other than a native plant.

(2)

A person must not, without the chief executive’s approval, spread or release reproductive material of the plant into the wild.

Maximum penalty—165 penalty units.

(3)

In this section—

reproductive material, of a plant, means any part of the plant that is capable of asexual or sexual reproduction.

Examples of reproductive material of a plant—

• a seed or part of a seed

• a bulb, rhizome, root, stolon, tuber or part of a bulb, rhizome, stolon or tuber

• a stem or leaf cutting

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