Members Services;
Weed Operators
LicensingSouth Australia
"Agricultural spraying for fee or reward"
Act: Controlled Substances Act
Licensing: Environmental Health Branch
Public & Environmental Health Service
Department of Human Services (SA Health Commission), 150 Grenfell Street,
Adelaide, 5000 PO Box 6 Rundle Mall, Adelaide, SA 5000
Phone (08) 8226 7107
Facsimile (08) 8226 7102
E-mail address:
EHB@dhs.sa.gov.au
Website:
http://www.health.sa.gov.au/pehs/branches/branch-environmental.htm
New South
Wales
Licensing requirements under the Controlled Substances Act
require all persons who apply herbicides or pesticides for a fee or
reward to be licensed.
Act: Controlled Substances Act.
ACT: Department of Urban Services
1st Floor, North Building, London Circuit, Canberra ACT 2600
Ph: (02) 6207 2152
WorkCover NSW, Pest Control Licensing
Locked Bag 10, Clarence St, Sydney NSW 2000
Ph: (02) 9370 5036
Application form
Northern Territory
Pharmacy & Poisons Branch, Territory Health Services
Casuarina Plaza, Casuarina 0810
Phone 8922 7341
Fax 8922 7200
Queensland
Licensing requirements under the Controlled Substances Act require
all persons who apply herbicides or pesticides for a fee or reward to
be licensed.
"Any person who applies a herbicide using engine powered spray equipment, onto land they do not own or occupy."
Queensland Health Department, GPO Box 48, Brisbane QLD 4000, Ph:
(07) 3234 0938.
Tasmania
This licence is required to offer pest, weed
or disease control services for fee or reward. Examples of
situations requiring a Commercial Operator Licence include broad
acre agricultural spraying under contract, dipping or drenching
livestock or weed control as part of a lawn mowing/site maintenance
service.
Chemical Management Unit, Department of Primary Industries, Water
& Environment, 13 St Johns Avenue New Town, 7018 GPO Box 44A Hobart
7001
Phone 6233 6825
Facsimile 6233 3843
E-mail address:
Dawn.Latham@dpiwe.tas.gov.au
Victoria
"agricultural spraying for fee or reward"
Under Victorian legislation there are controls on various aspects of
the uses of agricultural chemicals. Some particular uses are prohibited
and some require permits. Users of certain agricultural chemicals are
required to obtain an Agricultural Chemical User Permit (ACUP) or work
under the direct supervision of an ACUP holder. Additional restrictions
on the use of some herbicides apply to particular geographic areas known
as Chemical Control Areas.
The Department of Human Services is responsible for the licensing of
commercial spray operations on Public Land, and within urban areas.
The Regulations do not apply to anyone who only applies a herbicide
listed below with hand held hand-pumped equipment that has a tank capacity
of ten litres or less.
Act:
Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Control of Use) Act 1992
Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals
(Victoria) Act
1994
Further information:
http://www.dms.dpc.vic.gov.au/l2d/A/ACT00745/1_0.html
Accreditation:
TAFE Certificate in Weed Control 03 9242 8800
Weed Identification and their control. Commercial Pest Training Services
057 442 205
If you have completed any of the following courses, a Dept Human Services
examination will be required.
http://hna.fth.vic.gov.au/phb/hprot/pests/appcours.html
Licensing Department of Human Services, GPO Box 1670N, Melbourne 3001.
Pest Control Licensing Program: (03) 9637 4156, Fax: (03) 9637 4507.
http://hna.dhs.vic.gov.au/phd/topics4.htm#pestcontrol
Application form:
http://hna.ffh.vic.gov.au/phb/hprot/pests/forms/use2.htm
References:
Guidelines for Pest Control Licensing
agriculture Notes Series No AG0762
'Legislative control over fertilisers, agricultural chemical and
veterinary chemical use in Victoria'
Chemical Standards Branch , Dept Natural
Resources and Environment
Information Victoria at 356 Collins st,
Melbourne 3000 (Phone 1300 366 356 fax 03-9651 4111).
http://www.dce.vic.gov.au/farming/chemstds/cgsinfo.htm
http://www.dce.vic.gov.au/farming/chemstds/cgsrkinf.htm
Western Australia
Licensing requirements under the Controlled
Substances Act require all persons who apply herbicides or
pesticides for a fee or reward to be
licensed.
Pesticide Safety Section, Health Department of Western Australia, 1A
Brockway Road, Mt. Claremont WA 6010, Ph: (08) 9383 4244.
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