Quarantine (General) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1988 No. 3281

 

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 1 December 1988.

N.M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

Neal Blewett

Minister of State for Community Services

and Health

 

Principal Regulations

1. In these Regulations, “Principal Regulations” means the Quarantine (General) Regulations.

Interpretation

2. Regulation 5 of the Principal Regulations is amended:

(a) by inserting in subregulation (1) “as in force on 1 January 1982” after “1969” in the definition of “International Health Regulations”;

(b) by omitting from subregulation (1) the definitions of “successfully vaccinated against small-pox” and “vaccinated against small-pox”.

Prescribed diseases

3. Regulation 8 of the Principal Regulations is amended:

(a) by omitting from subregulation (1) “Epedemic” and substituting “Epidemic”;

 

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(b) by omitting from subregulation (1) “Small-pox”.

4. Regulation 14a of the Principal Regulations is repealed and the following regulation substituted:

Yellow fever, and period, prescribed under subsection 35 (1a) of the Act

“14a. For the purposes of subsection 35 (1a) of the Act:

(a) yellow fever is a prescribed disease; and

(b) the prescribed period, in relation to a person who arrives in Australia on board an oversea vessel, is the period beginning 10 years before the day of arrival and ending 10 days before that day.”.

Repeal

5. Regulation 17 of the Principal Regulations is repealed.

6. Regulations 20 and 21 of the Principal Regulations are repealed and the following regulations substituted:

Health reports to be furnished in duplicate

“20. Where under section 27 of the Act a quarantine officer (human quarantine) requires the master of an oversea vessel, or an overseas installation, other than an aircraft, to cause a health report to be delivered to the quarantine officer (human quarantine):

(a) the master shall cause another copy of that report to be so delivered; and

(b) the quarantine officer (human quarantine) shall sign that other copy and return it to the master.

Meaning of Primary Health Report

“21. For the purposes of regulation 22, ‘Primary Health Report’ means the health report delivered under section 27 of the Act by the master of an oversea vessel, or an overseas installation, other than an aircraft, to a quarantine officer (human quarantine) at the first port of entry.”.

Production of Primary Health Report

7. Regulation 22 of the Principal Regulations is amended:

(a) by inserting in subreguiation (1) “, or overseas installation, other than an aircraft,” after “oversea vessel”;

(b) by inserting in subreguiation (1) “or installation” after “the vessel”;

(c) by omitting from subreguiation (1) “in pursuance of the last preceding regulation” and substituting “under regulation 20”;

(d) by inserting in subreguiation (2) “, or overseas installation, other than an aircraft,” after “vessel”;

(e) by omitting from subreguiation (2) “him in pursuance of the last preceding regulation” and substituting “the master under regulation 20”.

 

Fumigation of vessel on arrival in port

8. Regulation 30 of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (2) (a) “54” and substituting “53”.

Period of quarantine

9. Regulation 63 of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (1) (a) “small-pox or”.

Period of performance of quarantine

10. Regulation 64 of the Principal Regulations is amended;

(a) by omitting “small-pox,”;

(b) by omitting from paragraph (a) “small-pox or”.

Repeal

11. Regulations 71 and 73 of the Principal Regulations are repealed.

Vaccination of persons travelling from proclaimed places

12. Regulation 74 of the Principal Regulations is amended:

(a) by omitting from subregulations (1) and (4) “a certificate in accordance with Form Q” and substituting “an international certificate”;

(b) by omitting from paragraph (4) (a) “six” and substituting “10”;

(c) by omitting from subparagraph (4) (b) (i) “officer of and substituting “practitioner employed by”;

(d) by omitting from paragraph (5) (a) “fourteen” and substituting “6”;

(e) by omitting paragraph (5) (b);

(f) by adding at the end the following subregulation:

“(6) In this regulation:

“international certificate”, in relation to a person, means an international certificate of vaccination or revaccination against yellow fever issued in respect of the person in accordance with Article 79 of the International Health Regulations;

“medical practitioner” means:

(a) a medical practitioner as defined in subregulation 5(1); or

(b) a person entitled to practise in a foreign country as a medical practitioner within the ordinary meaning of those words.”.

Schedule 1

13. Schedule 1 to the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting Forms F, G, L, N and Q.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 8 December 1988.

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.

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