Quarantine (General) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1958. No. 34.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE QUARANTINE ACT 1908-1950.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Quarantine Act 1908-1950.

Dated this 22nd day of May, 1958.

W. J. Slim

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(Sgd.) Donald A. Cameron

Minister of State for Health.

 

Amendments of the Quarantine (General) Regulations. 

1. After regulation 33 of the Quarantine (General) Regulations the following regulations are inserted:—

Refuse not to be discharged onto wharf or into waters of a port.

“33a.—(1.) Where a vessel is at a port in Australia, a person shall not cause animal waste, organic refuse, galley scraps or waste to be discharged from the vessel onto a wharf or into the waters of the port.

Penalty: One hundred pounds.

“(2.) Where animal waste, organic refuse, galley scraps or waste is discharged from a vessel that is at a port in Australia onto a wharf or into the waters of the port, the master of the vessel and the owner of the vessel shall each be deemed to have committed an offence and each is punishable, upon conviction, by a fine not exceeding One hundred pounds.

“(3.) It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence against a provision of either of the last two preceding sub-regulations if the person charged proves that the animal waste, organic refuse, galley scraps or waste was discharged onto the wharf or into the waters of the port, as the case may be, in compliance with the provisions of a notice under paragraph (b)of sub-regulation (1.) of regulation 35 of these Regulations.

Disinfection of refuse.

“33b.—(1.) The master of a vessel that is at a port in Australia shall cause the contents of any container of animal waste, organic refuse, galley scraps or waste (other than rendered fat) on that vessel to be saturated with waste oil.

Penalty: One hundred pounds.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 29th May, 1958

  Statutory Rules 1956, No. 14, as amended by 1957, No. 13.

711/58.—Price 3d. 9/21.3.1958

 

“(2.) The last preceding sub-regulation does not apply in relation to a vessel engaged in navigation by air.”.

Removal and destruction of garbage.

2. Regulation 34 of the Quarantine (General) Regulations is amended—

(a) by adding at the end of sub-regulation (1.) the words “in a manner and to a place specified in the instrument of authority”; and

(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (2.) the word “destroy” and inserting in its stead the words “, in accordance with the directions of the Chief Quarantine Officer, destroy or dispose of”.

Quarantine officer may require sanitary measures.

3. Regulation 35 of the Quarantine (General) Regulations is amended by inserting in paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (1.), after the word “manner”, the words “and at a place”.

 

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