Quarantine (General) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1976 No. 193

REGULATIONS UNDER THE QUARANTINE ACT 1908.*

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 this thirty first day of August, 1976.

John R. Kerr

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

RALPH J HUNT

Minister of State for Health.

 

Amendments of the Quarantine (General) Regulations 

Disinfection of refuse.

1. Regulation 33b of the Quarantine (General) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1) the words “ waste oil ” and substituting the words “ a disinfectant solution specified in sub-regulation (3) ”; and

(b) by adding after sub-regulation (2) the following sub-regulation:—

“ (3) For the purposes of sub-regulation (1), each of the following disinfectant solutions may be used:—

(a) a solution, or emulsion, that is aqueous and readily miscible with water and has a cresol disinfectant content of 1 per cent and a carbolic coefficient not less than 10;

(b) a solution having a formaldehyde content of 2 per cent prepared by mixing one part of a solution having a formaldehyde content of 40 per cent with 19 parts of clean water;

(c) a solution, or emulsion, that is aqueous and has a soda ash content of 40 per cent; or

(d) any liquid disinfectant, being a liquid disinfectant that makes animal waste, organic refuse, galley scraps and waste, when saturated with the disinfectant, unpalatable to animals, approved in writing by the Director as a disinfectant solution that may be used for the purposes of sub-regulation (1).”.

 

* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 2 September 1976.

  Statutory Rules 1956, No. 114, as amended by Statutory Rules 1957, No. 13; 1958, No. 34; 1965, Nos. 80 and 188; 1972, Nos. 82, 129 and 190; and 1973, No. 252.

17396/74 Recommended retail price 10c 6/21.6 1976

 

Vaccination of persons travelling from proclaimed places.

2. Regulation 74 of the Quarantine (General) Regulations is amended—

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

“ (1) Where the Governor-General has declared under section 12 of the Act that a place is infected with yellow fever, or that yellow fever may be brought or carried from or through that place, a person shall not travel by aircraft to Australia from that place unless he is in possession of a certificate in accordance with Form Q certifying that on a date specified in the certificate he was vaccinated or re-vaccinated against yellow fever.

Penalty: $200.”;

(b) by omitting sub-regulations (2) and (3);

(c) by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (5) the words “ proclaimed place ” and substituting the words “ place referred to in sub-regulation (1) ”; and

(d) by omitting paragraphs (c) and (d) of sub-regulation (5).

First Schedule.

3. The First Schedule to the Quarantine (General) Regulations is amended by omitting Form P.

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