Quarantine Legislation Amendment (Quarantinable Diseases) Proclamation 2015 (Cth)

Quarantine Legislation Amendment (Quarantinable Diseases) Proclamation 2015

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Proclamation.

Signed and sealed with the Great Seal of Australia on 09 July 2015

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Sussan Ley

Minister for Health

Contents

1............ Name............................................................................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement............................................................................................................. 1

3............ Authority....................................................................................................................... 1

4............ Schedules...................................................................................................................... 1

Schedule 1—Amendments  2

Quarantine (Christmas Island) Proclamation 2015  2

Quarantine (Cocos Islands) Proclamation 2015  2

Quarantine Proclamation 1998  2

1  Name

This is the Quarantine Legislation Amendment (Quarantinable Diseases) Proclamation 2015.

2  Commencement

(1)  Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1.  The whole of this instrument	The day after this instrument is registered.	14 July 2015

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

(2)  Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

This instrument is made under section 13 of the Quarantine Act 1908.

4  Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Quarantine (Christmas Island) Proclamation 2015

1  After paragraph 11(b)

Insert:

(ba)  Middle East respiratory syndrome;

Quarantine (Cocos Islands) Proclamation 2015

2  After paragraph 11(b)

Insert:

(ba)  Middle East respiratory syndrome;

Quarantine Proclamation 1998

3  Section 21 (table 9, after item 1B)

Insert:

1C Middle East respiratory syndrome