This Act may be cited as the Agricultural Pests Destruction Amendment Act 1982, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Agricultural Pests Destruction Act 1967 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

Section 64(1) of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after the words “that a Board”, the words “is using inefficient methods for the control of pests or is undertaking uneconomic control of pests or”.

Section 71 of the principal Act (as substituted by section 6(1) of the Agricultural Pests Destruction Amendment Act 1980) is hereby amended by repealing subsections (2), (3), and (4).

Section 71(6) of the principal Act (as so substituted) is hereby amended—

This section shall come into force on the 1st day of April 1983.