Quarantine (Animals) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1985 No. 3641

Quarantine (Animals) Regulations2

(Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Quarantine Act 1908.

Dated 19 December 1985.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

 

John Kerin

Minister of State for Primary Industry

 

Period of detention in quarantine

1. Regulation 35 of the Quarantine (Animals) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting sub-regulation (1) and substituting the following sub-regulation:

“(1) Subject to sub-regulation (2), an animal which is ordered into quarantine and conveyed to a quarantine station shall be detained in that quarantine station for such period as the Director, or a person authorised by the Director, determines.”;

(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (2) all the words from and including “number” to and including “elapsed” and substituting “expiration of the period referred to in sub-regulation (1)”; and

(c) by omitting sub-regulations (4) and (5) and substituting the following sub-regulations:

“(4) The Director or a person authorised by the Director may direct that an animal shall remain in a quarantine station for a longer period than that referred to in sub-regulation (1) if—

(a) in the case of a dog or cat imported by air—

(i) the cage or box in which the animal was transported to Australia was not so constructed as to prevent the

 

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animal from coming into physical contact with any other animal, the seal on the cage or box was broken at the time of importation or the cage or box was unloaded from the aircraft in which the animal was transported at any intermediate place at which the aircraft landed during the flight; or

(ii) the Director or the person authorised by the Director, as the case may be, is of the opinion that the dog or cat cannot be released at the end of the period referred to in sub-regulation (1) without danger of introducing some disease; or

(b) in any other case—the Director or the person authorised by the Director, as the case may be, is of the opinion that the animal cannot be released at the end of the period referred to in sub-regulation (1) without danger of introducing some disease.

“(5) Where an animal that has been ordered into quarantine is conveyed to a place approved under sub-section 46a (1) of the Act, a reference in this regulation to a quarantine station shall be read as a reference to that approved place.”.

Repeal of Schedule 2

2. Schedule 2 to the Quarantine (Animals) Regulations is repealed.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 20 December 1985.

2. Statutory Rules 1935 No. 71 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1985 No. 313 and see also Statutory Rules 1985 No. 313.

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