Biosecurity (Emergency Requirements—Remote Communities) Amendment Determination (No. 1) 2022 (Cth)

Biosecurity (Emergency Requirements—Remote Communities) Amendment Determination (No. 1) 2022

I, Greg Hunt, Minister for Health and Aged Care, make the following determination.

Dated 18 January 2022

Greg Hunt

Minister for Health and Aged Care

Contents

1............ Name............................................................................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement............................................................................................................. 1

3............ Authority....................................................................................................................... 1

4............ Schedules...................................................................................................................... 1

Schedule 1—Amendments  2

Biosecurity (Emergency Requirements—Remote Communities) Determination (No. 1) 2022 2

1  Name

This instrument is the Biosecurity (Emergency Requirements—Remote Communities) Amendment Determination (No. 1) 2022.

2  Commencement

(1)  Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1.  The whole of this instrument	Immediately after this instrument is registered.	9.32 pm (A.C.T.) 18 January 2022

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

(2)  Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

This instrument is made under subsection 477(1) of the Biosecurity Act 2015.

4  Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Biosecurity (Emergency Requirements—Remote Communities) Determination (No. 1) 2022

1  Section 8

Omit “12 pm, by legal time in the Northern Territory, on 20 January 2022”, substitute “2 pm, by legal time in the Northern Territory, on 24 January 2022”.

2  Before clause 2 of Schedule 1

Insert:

1Amoonguna

(1)  This clause describes the area bounded by a circle of radius 1 km, the centre of which is the Amoonguna Post Office, 61 White Gum Drive, Amoonguna in the Northern Territory.

(2)  This clause is repealed at 3 pm, by legal time in the Northern Territory, on 23 January 2022.

3  Clause 2 of Schedule 1

Before “This”, insert “(1)”.

4  At the end of clause 2 of Schedule 1

Add:

(2)  This clause is repealed at 3 pm, by legal time in the Northern Territory, on 23 January 2022.

5  Clause 3 of Schedule 1

Before “This”, insert “(1)”.

6  At the end of clause 3 of Schedule 1

Add:

(2)  This clause is repealed at 3 pm, by legal time in the Northern Territory, on 23 January 2022.

7  At the end of Schedule 1

Add:

4  Elcho Island including Galiwinku and Wessel Islands including Martjanba

This clause describes the lockdown area within the meaning of the COVID‑19 Directions (No. 20) 2022: Directions to lock down Elcho Island including Galiwinku and Wessel Islands including Martjanba (NT), as in force at the commencement of the Biosecurity (Emergency Requirements—Remote Communities) Amendment Determination (No. 1) 2022.

5Yirrkala

(1)  This clause describes the area bounded by a circle of radius 2 km, the centre of which is the Yirrkala Post Office at Lot 81 Galpu Road, Yirrkala in the Northern Territory.

(2)  This clause is repealed at 2 pm, by legal time in the Northern Territory, on 20 January 2022.