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12th June 2015, 12:10 PM #1Senior Member
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Rules on selling wooden items
Hi everyone
I was curious to know if there are rules on selling anything made of wood within Australia.
eg quarantine, freight etc
I was considering selling things online within Australia (not overseas) but I cant seem to find any info on this.
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12th June 2015, 12:48 PM #2GOLD MEMBER
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Check out this document about domestic quarantine. It's mostly about food stuffs but does cover timber..
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12th June 2015, 03:27 PM #3
Interesting read. it appears as if you are OK so long as you do not live in WA. Oh wait! Sorry mate, it looks like you will need a permit.
John
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12th June 2015, 04:41 PM #4Senior Member
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Thanks guys for the info, that answers my question.
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Technically in WA there is a bit more to it than just quarantine.
If you use already commercially harvested timber then it's not your problem
BUT
If you are going to harvest and sell products containing protected WA native timbers (that's ALL WA native timbers) even from private property, then technically you need a permit and formal permission of the land owner.
http://www.dpaw.wa.gov.au/images/doc...nce-Timber.pdf
The only thing that can be sold without any permits are plants or parts of plants that have died from natural causes, e.g. banksia pods found on the ground.
This is intended to apply to large scale commercial operations but there is nothing in the legislation to prevent it being applied to smaller operators. My inside sources tell me no one has been prosecuted for not having a permit but that does not mean that it could not happen.
Logistically this is completely bonkers because can you imagine every tree lopper seeking formal permission from every property owner and lodging an application before removing every native tree they cut down just because they might happen to mill and sell the timber??
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It's possible to run up against a really jealous competitor who decides
to put a bug in the ear of the agency administering the permits.
Here in my village, the complaints came from second-rate wannabees
who just wanted to clear the deck. As they subsequently discovered,
it is a stupid bird that soils its own nest.
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