Quarantine (General) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1965. No. 80.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE QUARANTINE ACT 1908-1961.*

I, THE Administrator of the Government of 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 eighteenth day of June, 1965.

Administrator

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Health.

 

Amendment of the Quarantine (General) Regulations. 

The Quarantine (General) Regulations are amended by inserting after regulation 42 the following regulation:—

“42a.—(1.) Where goods, being—

Disinfection of certain bedding and second-hand clothing. &c.

(a) used bedding included among the baggage and personal effects of a passenger who travelled to Australia on a ship as a steerage-class passenger;

(b) second-hand clothing imported into Australia from a place other than a place in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, New Zealand or the United States of America; or

(c) second-hand carpets and other like floor coverings,

are subject to quarantine or are ordered into quarantine under the Act, this regulation applies to those goods.

“(2.) Goods to which this regulation applies shall be subjected to disinfection—

(a) by a method by which the goods could be disinfected if they were being disinfected in accordance with regulation 40 of these Regulations; or

(b) by such other method as the Chief Quarantine Officer approves.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 18 June, 1965.

  Statutory Rules 1965, No. 114; as amended by Statutory Rules 1965, No. 13; and 1958, No. 34.

 

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

6465/64.—Price 6d. 9/25.3.1965.