| (1) | Category 3 plants shall not occur on any land or inland water surface other than in a biological control reserve. |
| (2) | Subject to the provisions of subregulation (3), the provisions of subregulation (1) shall not apply in respect of category 3 plants already in existence at the time of the commencement of these regulations. |
| (a) | No land user shall allow category 3 plants to occur within 30 meters of the 1:50 year flood line of a river, stream, spring, natural channel in which water flows regularly or intermittently, lake, dam or wetland. |
| (b) | The executive officer may impose such additional conditions as may reasonably be deemed necessary with regard to category 3 plants already in existence at the time of the commencement of these regulations. |
| (c) | A land user must take all reasonable steps to curtail the spreading of propagating material of category 3 plants. |
| (d) | The executive officer may, after consultation with the land user, issue a direction in terms of section 7 of the Act that category 3 plants in existence at the time of the commencement of these regulations must be controlled by means of the measures prescribed in regulation 15F. |
| (4) | No person shall, except in or for purposes of a biological control reserve— |
| (a) | plant, establish, maintain, multiply or propagate category 3 plants; |
| (b) | import or sell propagating material of category 3 plants or any category 3 plants; |
| (c) | acquire propagating material of category 3 plants or any category 3 plants. |
| (5) | The executive officer may, on good cause shown in writing by the land user, grant written exemption from compliance with one or more of the requirements of subregulations (1), (3) and (4) on such conditions as the executive officer may determine in each case. |
[Regulation 15C inserted by regulation 4 of Notice No. R. 280 of 2001]
