Quarantine (General) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1981 No. 421

 

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 Regulation under the Quarantine Act 1908.

Dated 12 March 1981.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Health

 

After regulation 79 of the Quarantine (General) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:

Prescribed measures for purposes of paragraph 74A (4) (c) of the Act

“79a. (1) For the purposes of paragraph 74a (4) (c) of the Act, each of the following is a prescribed measure for regulating or preventing persons, vehicles or goods entering or leaving premises:

(a) stopping a person or vehicle;

(b) prohibiting a person from proceeding, moving goods, or driving or moving a vehicle, beyond a specified point or outside a specified area;

(c) prohibiting a person from entering, moving goods, or driving or moving a vehicle, into a specified area;

(d) requiring a person to proceed, move goods, or drive or move a vehicle along a specified route or to a specified area;

(e) removing a person, a vehicle or goods from any area.

 

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“(2) For the purposes of paragraph 74a (4) (c) of the Act, each of the following is a prescribed measure of quarantine:

(a) cleaning, disinfecting, disinsecting or treating any person, building or goods;

(b) requiring a person to clean, disinfect or disinsect himself or any clothes that he is wearing or has in his possession;

(c) isolating persons or goods;

(d) inspecting or observing an animal for the purpose of determining whether the animal is infected with a quarantinable disease;

(e) detaining an animal for the purpose of carrying out a measure referred to in paragraph (d);

(f) detaining any goods for the purpose of carrying out any treatment in relation to a quarantinable disease.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 20 March 1981.

2. 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; 1973 No. 252; .1976 No. 193; 1978 No. 167; 1979 Nos. 15 and 286; 1980 Nos. 51 and 116, 1981 No. 10.

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