Requirement to ensure place is not a breeding ground for mosquitoes
17 Requirement to ensure place is not a breeding ground for mosquitoes
A relevant person for a place must ensure water or another liquid that has accumulated at the place is not a breeding ground for mosquitoes.
Maximum penalty—40 penalty units.
For subsection (1), it is irrelevant whether the accumulation is artificial, natural, permanent or temporary.
In a proceeding for an offence against subsection (1), it is a defence for the defendant to prove that the defendant took all reasonable steps to comply with subsection (1).
In this section—
breeding ground, for mosquitoes, means a place where mosquito eggs, larvae or pupae are present.
Examples of places where liquid may accumulate and be a breeding ground for mosquitoes—
bromeliads, containers, ditches, drains, gutters, car bodies, ponds, swimming and tidal pools, sump traps, tyres, tubs, water features
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