Clause 25

If at any time it appears to the Commissioner that the method of cultivation of any description of crop or the use or storing or method of preparing or dealing with any kind of manure (including prawn dust, chicken droppings and stable refuse) not prohibited by section 24 of this Act or the irrigation of land in any specific manner in any area is a nuisance, the Commissioner may prohibit such method of cultivation or such use or storing or method of preparing or dealing with such manure or such manner of irrigation within such area or may regulate any of the aforesaid by imposing such condition or conditions thereon as the Commissioner may deem necessary for the prevention of the nuisance.

The Commissioner may, in his discretion, publish notice of such prohibition or condition or conditions in the Gazette.

The owner and the occupier of any land who disregards or fails to comply with any prohibition or condition imposed by the Commissioner under the provisions of subsection (1) of this section shall both be guilty of an offence under this Act and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars and to a further fine of one hundred dollars for every day during which the offence is continued after conviction, and in the case of a second or subsequent conviction to the like fines or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fines and imprisonment.