3Definitions

3 Definitions

3 Definitions

(1) In this Act, except in so far as the context or subject-matter otherwise indicates or requires—

agent application means an application under section 20.

agent organisms means organisms in respect of which there is in force a declaration by the Authority, under section 27, 28, 29 or 32, that the organisms are agent organisms for the purposes of this Act.

agent recommendation means a recommendation to the Authority by the Council that organisms of a particular kind should be declared to be agent organisms for the purposes of this Act.

Australia includes the external Territories (if any) in respect of which a declaration under section 4 (1) of the Commonwealth Act is in force.

Authority means the New South Wales Biological Control Authority established by section 8.

Commonwealth Act means the Biological Control Act 1984 of the Commonwealth.

control, in relation to organisms, includes—

(a) reduce the number of those organisms,

(b) prevent an increase in the number of those organisms,

(c) reduce the activity or appetite of some or all of those organisms, and

(d) modify the behaviour or characteristics of some or all of those organisms.

Council means the Agriculture Ministers’ Forum or, if that body ceases to exist—

(a) any body that replaces that body and has as its members Ministers of Australian (or Australian and New Zealand) jurisdictions with portfolio responsibility for primary industries, or

(b) if the Minister, by order published in the Gazette, prescribes a body that has as its members Ministers of Australian (or Australian and New Zealand) jurisdictions with portfolio responsibility for primary industries—that prescribed body.

Department means Regional NSW.

kind, in relation to organisms, means species, sub-species or variety.

organism means—

(a) an organism (whether alive or dead and whether or not indigenous to Australia) other than a human, or

(b) a virus or a sub-viral agent (whether alive or dead and whether or not indigenous to Australia), or

(c) a part of, or matter discharged from, an organism within the meaning of paragraph (a) or (b).