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

Schedule 4   Application, saving and transitional provisions commencing later

Part 8   Governance and officials

65   Powers that may be exercised on board a conveyance

(1) This item applies if:

(a) immediately before the commencement day, a person who was a quarantine officer was on board a conveyance as permitted by paragraph 71(1)(a) of the Quarantine Act; and

(b) the conveyance is taken under item 32 to have become subject to biosecurity control at the beginning of the commencement day.

(2) If the person becomes a biosecurity officer by force of subitem 63(2), the person may remain on the conveyance for the purpose of performing functions or duties, or exercising powers, under the Biosecurity Act.

(3) If:

(a) the person had given the master of the conveyance a direction under paragraph 71(1)(b) of the Quarantine Act; and

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

then the direction has effect, on and after the commencement day, as if it were a direction given to the person in charge of the conveyance under subsection 556(2) of the Biosecurity Act.