3Interpretation

3 Interpretation

[Section 3 Subsection (1) amended by No. 10 of 1996, s. 4 ]

(1)  In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears –

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 Tasmanian 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 body known as the Agriculture and Resource Management Council of Australia and New Zealand, whether known by that name or any other name;

, in relation to live organisms, or viruses or sub-viral agents, means species, subspecies or variety;