Quarantine (General) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1990 No. 3521

 

Quarantine (General) 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 9 November 1990.

BILL HAYDEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command.

 

Alan Griffiths

Minister of State for Resources

 

1. Amendment

1.1 The Quarantine (General) Regulations are amended as set out in these Regulations.

2. Regulation 5 (Interpretation)

2.1 Subregulation 5 (1):

After the definition of “medical practitioner”, insert:

“ ‘operator’, in relation to an aircraft, means a person, organisation or enterprise engaged in, or offering to engage I,. an aircraft operation;”.

3. Regulation 66 (Master of aircraft to destroy insects)

3.1 Omit the regulation, substitute:

Operator or master of oversea aircraft to make arrangements for the destruction of insects and disease vectors

“66. The master of an oversea aircraft, or if the master is not the operator of that aircraft, the operator of the aircraft, must make

 

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arrangements for the treatment of the aircraft in a manner approved by the Director for the purpose of destroying insects and disease vectors that are in the aircraft.

Penalty: $2,000.”.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 16 November 1990.

2. Statutory Rules 1956 No. 114 as amended by 1957 No. 13; 1958 No. 34; 1965 Nos. 80 and 188; 1972 Nos. 82. 129 and 190; 1973 No. 252; 1976 No. 193; 1978 No. 167; 1979 Nos. 15 and 286; 1980 Nos. 51 and 116; 1981 Nos. 10, 42, 215 and 277; 1984 No. 26; 1985 No. 345; 1986 No. 37; 1987 No. 193; 1988 No. 328.

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