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Agricultural Pests Act, 1983 (Act No. 36 of 1983)

6. Prescribing of control measures by Minister

 

(1) In order to prevent and combat the spreading of pathogens, red-billed quelea, insects and exotic animals, the Minister may by notice in the Gazette prescribe control measures which shall be complied with or carried out by a user of land.

[Section 6(1) substituted by section 6(a) of Act No. 9 of 1992.

 

(2) Control measures may relate to—
(a) the destruction of plants;
(b) the cleansing or destruction of plants or any particular thing infected with pathogens or insects;
(c) the combating of pathogens, red-billed quelea, insects or exotic animals;

[Section 6(2)(c) substituted by section 6(b) of Act No. 9 of 1992]

(d) the keeping, planting or cultivation of plants;
(e) the keeping of pathogens, insects, exotic animals or any particular thing;
(f) the removal of plants, pathogens, insects, exotic animals or any particular thing—
(i) from any land within a specified area to any other land within the same area;
(ii) from any land within a specified area to any land within any other specified area;
(g) the notification of the occurrence of specified pathogens, roosting or breeding swarms of red-billed quelea, insects or exotic animals on land;

[Section 6(2)(g) substituted by section 6(c) of Act No. 9 of 1992]

(h) any other matter which the Minister may deem necessary or expedient to prescribe in order to further the objects of this Act,

and the generality of the power conferred by paragraph (h) shall not be limited by the preceding paragraphs.

 

(3) A control measure may—
(a) contain a prohibition or obligation with regard to any matter referred to in subsection (2) ;
(b) provide that an executive officer may exempt any person from such a prohibition or obligation by means of a permit;

[Section 6(3)(b) substituted by section 6(d) of Act No. 9 of 1992]

(c) set out the fees payable by a person applying for a permit referred to in paragraph (b).

[Section 6(3)(c) inserted by section 6 of Act No. 18 of 1989]

 

(4) Different control measures may be prescribed in respect of different plants, pathogens, insects, exotic animals or other things, or in respect of different areas or in respect of different circumstances or in such other respects as the Minister may think fit.