Quarantine (General) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1965 No. 188

 

REGULATION UNDER THE QUARANTINE ACT 1908-1961.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Quarantine Act 1908-1961.

Dated this seventeenth day of December, 1965.

CASEY

Governor General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Health.

 

Amendment of the Quarantine (General) REGULATIONS 

After regulation 39 of the Quarantine (General) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Method of disinfecting footwear and articles of clothing in relation to foot and mouth disease.

“39a. Where goods, being footwear or articles of clothing, have, in pursuance of section 35 of the Act, been ordered into quarantine on the ground that those goods are or are likely to be, in the opinion of the quarantine officer who ordered them into quarantine, infected with the quarantinable disease known as foot and mouth disease or a source of infection with that quarantinable disease, those goods, being footwear, shall be thoroughly cleaned and shall be disinfected with an aqueous solution containing one per centum of sodium carbonate and those goods, being articles of clothing, shall be dry-cleaned.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 21 December, 1965.

  Statutory Rules 1956, No. 114, as amended by Statutory Rules 1957, No. 13; and 1958, No. 34.

 

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra

5858/65.—Price 6d. (5c) 10/26.10.1965