Quarantine (General) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1973 No. 252

REGULATION UNDER THE QUARANTINE ACT 1908-1969.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Quarantine Act 1908-1969.

Dated this fourth day of December, 1973.

PAUL HASLUCK

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

D. EVERINGHAM

Minister of State for Health.

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Amendment of the Quarantine (General) Regulations 

Regulation 14a of the Quarantine (General) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation substituted:—

Prescribed disease and prescribed period under sub-section 35 (1a) of Act.

“ 14a. For the purposes of sub-section (1a) of section 35 of the Act—

(a) small-pox is a prescribed disease; and

(b) the prescribed period, in relation to a person who is or has been on board an oversea vessel, is a period commencing three years before—

(i) in the case of a person who arrived in Australia on board the vessel on its current voyage—the date on which the person so arrived in Australia; and

(ii) in any other case—the last date on which the person was on the vessel,

and ending eight days before that date.”.

 

* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 13 December 1973.

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