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Wollemia nobilis (Wollemi Pine) - Biosecurity New Zealand

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Unwanted organism (<strong>Biosecurity</strong> Act 1993) Means any organism that a chief technical officer believes<br />

is capable or potentially capable of causing unwanted harm to any natural and<br />

physical resources or human health; and<br />

(a) Includes:<br />

(i) Any new organism if the Authority has declined approval to import that<br />

organism; and<br />

(ii) Any organism specified in the Second Schedule of the Hazardous<br />

Substances and <strong>New</strong> Organisms Act 1996; but<br />

(b) Does not include any organism approved for importation under the<br />

Hazardous Substances and <strong>New</strong> Organisms Act 1996, unless:<br />

(i) The organism is an organism which has escaped from a containment<br />

facility; or<br />

(ii) A chief technical officer, after consulting the Authority and taking into<br />

account any comments made by the Authority concerning the organism,<br />

believes that the organism is capable or potentially capable of causing<br />

unwanted harm to any natural and physical resources or human health.<br />

Whole plants A nursery stock commodity sub-class for rooted cuttings and plants with roots and<br />

leaves<br />

Import Risk Analysis: <strong><strong>Wollemi</strong>a</strong> <strong>nobilis</strong> (<strong>Wollemi</strong> <strong>Pine</strong>) Araucariaceae Nursery Stock from Australia 14 March 2008 Page 129 of 193

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