Agriculture and Related Resources Protection (European House Borer) Regulations 2006 (WA)

Western Australia Agriculture and Related Resources Protection Act 1976 Agriculture and Related Resources Protection (European House Borer) Regulations 2006 Western Australia Agriculture and Related Resources Protection (European House Borer) Regulations 2006 Contents Part 1 — Preliminary 1. Citation 1 2. Terms used 1 Part 2 — Restrictions on movement of pinewood 3. Bringing pinewood into RMZ 3 4. Removing seasoned pinewood from RMZ 3 5. Removing unseasoned pinewood from RMZ 5 6. Removing seasoned pinewood from PMZ 5 7. Causing pinewood to be moved into or from RMZ or PMZ 6 8. Authorisations 6 Part 3 — Destruction and treatment of pinewood 9. Unwanted pinewood in RMZ 7 10. Directions to store, treat or destroy pinewood in RMZ 7 11. Manner in which pinewood to be destroyed 8 12. Manner in which pinewood to be treated 8 13. Authorised person may carry out work and recover cost 9 Part 4 — Structural pinewood 14. Terms used 10 15. EHB infestation to be reported 11 16. Treatment of infested structural pinewood 11 Part 5 — General 17. Authorised person to notify owner or occupier of certain properties of infestation 13 18A. Notification of RMZ 13 18. Information as to source and supply of pinewood 14 19. Record keeping by dealers may be required 14 20. RMZ or PMZ notification signs 15 21. Surveillance poles, traps and lures 15 Notes Compilation table 16 Defined terms Western Australia Agriculture and Related Resources Protection Act 1976 Agriculture and Related Resources Protection (European House Borer) Regulations 2006

Part 1 — Preliminary

1. Citation These regulations are the Agriculture and Related Resources Protection (European House Borer) Regulations 2006 1.

2. Terms used (1) In these regulations — control period means the period beginning on 1 September in any year and ending on 30 April in the next year; EHB means the European house borer Hylotrupes bajulus Linnaeus; pinewood means trees or wood from trees of the genera Pinus, Abies, Picea and Pseudotsuga whether or not the wood is, or is part of an article (including an item of furniture, decoration, utensil or other personal effect); pinewood dealer means a person who carries on a business or hobby of, or a business or hobby that includes, buying, selling or transporting pinewood; PMZ or priority management zone means each property in respect of which the owner or occupier has been given a notice under regulation 17(1); RMZ or restricted movement zone means an area determined by a notice given under regulation 18A(1); seasoned pinewood means pinewood that has a moisture content of 20% or less when tested in accordance with Australian Standard AS 1080.1 — 1997 Timber: Methods of test – Moisture content; unseasoned pinewood means pinewood that is not seasoned pinewood; unwanted pinewood means pinewood that is untreated and — (a) of no commercial value (including off‑cuts, discarded wood or wooden articles, fallen or dead trees or parts of trees and other waste wood); or (b) intended for use as firewood. [(2) deleted] [Regulation 2 amended: Gazette 28 Dec 2007 p. 6480‑1; 5 Feb 2010 p. 241‑2.]