This Act, consisting of 30 sections divided into five Parts and completed by one Schedule, provides for the protection of vineyards from disease and to assist and support the grape industry in South Australia. The Act provides for the establishment of the Phylloxera and Grape Industry Board having the following functions: to identify and assess the relative threat to the State's vineyards posed by phylloxera and other diseases and the risk of spreading diseases through the movement of machinery, equipment, vines and other vectors into and within the State; to develop policies in relation to appropriate restrictions on or conditions for the movement of machinery, equipment, vines and other vectors into and within the State to prevent the spread of disease, to the quarantine of vines that are or may be affected by disease, and to appropriate measures for the control of outbreaks of disease in the State; to develop plans for the eradication of disease in the State's vineyards; to support and encourage the conduct and evaluation of research into disease resistance and tolerance of root stocks and scions as well as diseases that may affect vines; to approve nurseries that are capable of producing propagative material that is free of specified diseases or industry; etc.
Australia · 1995-04-13