47DOffence to fail to comply with notice

47D Offence to fail to comply with notice

(1) If there is on land within a priority area, a noxious weed or pest animal of the category specified in the priority area notice, and if the land owner of the land has been served with a copy of the notice under section 47C, the land owner—

(a) must take one or more of the measures that are specified in the notice, in accordance with the notice, on that land; and

(b) must take those measures within the time specified in the notice for taking measures.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a land owner to the extent that any land management notice that has been served on that land owner applies to the same noxious weed or pest animal and the same land as that to which the priority area notice applies.

S. 47D(3) inserted by No. 51/2013 s. 12.

(3) A municipal council does not commit an offence under subsection (1) in respect of any roadside of a municipal road in its municipal district if—

(a) the roadside is within the priority area; and

(b) there is an approved roadside weed and pest animal management plan in operation in respect of the municipal district.

S. 47E inserted by No. 67/2006 s. 8.