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

Schedule 4   Application, saving and transitional provisions commencing later

Part 3   Managing biosecurity risks: conveyances

40   Movement of conveyance in quarantine

(1) This item applies in relation to a conveyance that was in quarantine immediately before the commencement day.

(2) A biosecurity officer is taken to have given the person in charge of the conveyance a direction under subparagraph 202(1)(a)(iii) of the Biosecurity Act at the beginning of the commencement day not to allow the conveyance to be moved.

Note: Section 40 of the Quarantine Act would have applied in relation to the conveyance immediately before the commencement day.

(3) If:

(a) a person had been given permission under subsection 40(2) of the Quarantine Actfor the conveyance to be moved; and

(b) the permission was in force immediately before the commencement day;

then the permission has effect, on and after the commencement day, as if it were a permission given to the person under section 557 of the Biosecurity Act to move the conveyance.