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CATCHMENT AND LAND PROTECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 41

Offence to disobey notice

S. 41(1) substituted by No. 61/2003 s. 8.

    (1)     A land owner of land to which a land management notice applies—

        (a)     who has been served with the notice; or

S. 41(1)(b) amended by No. 33/2014 s. 9.

        (b)     to whom particulars of the notice have been given in a section 32 statement prepared in accordance with Division 2 of Part II of the Sale of Land Act 1962 ; or

        (c)     who, at the time of becoming owner of the land, was aware or ought reasonably to have been aware of the notice—

must comply with the notice.

Penalty:     240 penalty units.

    (2)     Subsection (1) does not make the Crown, a Minister or the Secretary liable for an offence.

S. 41(3) inserted by No. 51/2013 s. 10.

    (3)     A municipal council does not commit an offence under subsection (1) if, at the time the land management notice was served, there was a declaration under section 22A in effect in respect of the municipal district of the municipal council and a roadside weed and pest animal management plan was being prepared by the municipal council.



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