Western Australian Numbered Acts

BIOSECURITY AND AGRICULTURE MANAGEMENT ACT 2007 (NO. 23 OF 2007) - SECT 117

117 .         Evidence of purpose or intent

        (1)         In any proceedings for an offence under this Act an allegation in the prosecution notice —

            (a)         that an act occurred for a specified purpose; or

            (b)         that anything was done with a specified intent or knowledge,

                is, on proof of the act occurring or the thing being done and in the absence of evidence to the contrary, taken to be proved.

        (2)         In any proceedings for an offence under this Act an allegation in the prosecution notice of the following matters is, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, taken to be proved —

            (a)         that a specified thing is or was intended or prepared for supply or has been supplied;

            (b)         that the supply or intended supply of a specified thing was to a specified market.