Quarantine (General) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1957. No. 13.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE QUARANTINE ACT 1908-1950.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Quarantine Act 1908-1950.

Dated this 21st day of March, 1957.

W. J. Slim

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(Sgd.) Donald A. Cameron

Minister of State for Health.

 

Amendments of the Quarantine (General) Regulations. 

1—(1.) After regulation 14 of the Quarantine (General) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Prescribed disease and period under section 35 (1a.) of the Act.

“14a.—(1.) Small-pox is a prescribed disease for the purpose of subsection (1a.) of section 35 of the Act.

“(2.) For the purpose of sub-section (1a.) of section 35 of the Act, the prescribed period, in relation to a person who is or has been on board an oversea vessel, is a period commencing three years and ending eight days—

(a) in the case of a person who arrived in Australia on board the vessel on its current voyage—before the day on which the person so arrived in Australia; and

(b) in any other case—before the last day on which the person was on the vessel.”.

(2.) This regulation shall come into operation on the first day of May, 1957.

Issue of Deratting Exemption Certificate.

2. Regulation 32 of the Quarantine (General) Regulations is amended by inserting, after the word “vessel” (first occurring), the words “, on receipt of a fee of Two pounds two shillings”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1957.

 Statutory Rules 1956, No. 114.

 

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

558/57.—Price 3d. 12/22.2.1957.