Biosecurity (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act 2015 (62 of 2015)

Schedule 4   Application, saving and transitional provisions commencing later

Part 2   Managing biosecurity risks: goods

Division 1   Goods brought into Australian territory or otherwise subject to quarantine

15   Directions about movement of goods

On and after the commencement day, a direction or notice that:

(a) was in force immediately before that day; and

(b) was given to a person under a provision of the Quarantine Act described in column 1 of an item of the following table; and

(c) was of a kind described in column 2 of the item; and

(d) related to goods that are of a kind described in column 3 of the item;

has effect as if it were a direction given to the person under paragraph 138(1)(a) of the Biosecurity Act to carry out a biosecurity measure required under section 132 of that Act in relation to the goods.

Directions and notices relating to movement of goods

 

Column 1

Provision of Quarantine Act

Column 2

Kind of direction or notice

Column 3

Kind of goods

1

Paragraph 48(1)(b) or subsection 48(3) or 48(6)

Direction:

(a) that goods be taken to a place and detained there in a specified manner and for a specified period; or

(b) that relates to the extent to which goods may be moved, dealt with or interfered with; or

(c) that goods be detained at a vessel, installation, quarantine station or other place, in a specified manner and for a specified period

Goods that:

(a) had been ordered into quarantine under the Quarantine Act; and

(b) had not been released from quarantine before the commencement day

2

Subsection 52(5A)

Direction relating to the movement of an animal

Animal that was under quarantine surveillance under subsection 52(3) of the Quarantine Act

3

Subsection 56(1)

Electronic notice including under paragraph 56(2)(d) or (e) of the Quarantine Act a requirement relating to the movement of goods

Goods that were in quarantine immediately before the commencement day in accordance with the notice

4

Paragraph 70D(2)(a), (b) or (c)

Direction relating to the leaving or movement of goods

Goods that were subject to quarantine