78Identifying contaminated agricultural produce

78 Identifying contaminated agricultural produce (1) The Chemicals Coordinator must advise the Minister if the Chemicals Coordinator believes on reasonable grounds that agricultural produce growing on contaminated land contains or is likely to contain a substance at a concentration that: (a) exceeds the maximum residue limit; (b) exceeds the standard prescribed by the Regulations for the concentration of the substance in the agricultural produce; or (c) poses or is likely to pose a threat to human health or to trade in the agricultural industry. (2) The reasonable costs and expenses of sampling and analysis incurred by the Chemicals Coordinator in order to advise the Minister about the concentration or likely concentration of a substance referred to in subsection (1) are recoverable as a debt due and payable to the Territory from the grower. (3) However, those costs and expenses are not recoverable if: (a) the use of the substance was authorised by this Act or another law in force in the Territory; or (b) the concentration or likely concentration of the substance was the result of the act or omission of a person other than the grower and the grower did not know, and could not reasonably have been expected to know, about the act or omission.

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