Quarantine (General) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1987 No. 1931

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 13 September 1987.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

Peter Morris

Minister of State for Resources

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Principal Regulations

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

Control of rats

2. Regulation 25 of the Principal Regulations is amended:

(a) by omitting from subregulation (2) “Subject to the next succeeding sub-regulation, the master” and substituting “The master”;

(b) by omitting subregulation (4) and substituting the following subregulation:

“(4) Subregulations (1) and (2) do not apply to the master of a vessel (not being an aircraft) that has been inspected by a quarantine officer and has been found to be free of rats.”; and

(c) by omitting from subregulation (5) “Where the master of a vessel fails to comply with a requirement of sub-regulation (1) or (2) of this regulation” and substituting “Where the master of a vessel fails to comply with a requirement of subregulation (1) or (2), being a person to whom that subregulation applies”.

 

(S.R. 216/87)—Cat. No.  14/13.8.1987

 

Master of aircraft to destroy insects

3. Regulation 66 of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (2) (a) “and unless the ventilators in the compartment are closed immediately before, and are kept closed until not less than ten minutes after, the compartment is so treated”.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 18 September 1987.

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.

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