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Laws of Australia

Biosecurity (Movements between Parts of Australian Territory) Declaration 2016

Made 2016-05-26 · Text as of 2026-10-01

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Language
English
Kind
Regulation
Country
Australia
Subjects
Livestock, Food and nutrition, Cultivated plants
Keywords
biosecurity, internal trade, risk assessment/management
Categories
agriculture

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  1. Section 1 1 Name This is the Biosecurity (Movements between Parts of Australian Territory) Declaration 2016. 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 At the same time as section 3 of the Biosecurity Act 16 June 2016 instrument 2015 commences. Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 subsection 618(2) of the Biosecurity Act 2015. 4 Definitions Note 1: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Act, including the following: (a) affected provisions; (b) Australian territory; (c) conveyance; (d) goods; (e) protected zone area. Note 2: A reference to Australian territory includes Norfolk Island on and after 1 July 2016. In this instrument: Act means the Biosecurity Act 2015. Torres Strait permanent biosecurity monitoring zone has the same meaning as in the Biosecurity Regulation 2016. 5 Regulated movements between parts of Australian territory Subdivision B of Division 2 of Part 4 of Chapter 11 of the Act applies to movements that: (a) are of a thing specified in column 3 of an item in the following table; and Biosecurity (Movements between Parts of Australian Territory) Declaration 2016 1 OPC61858 - B Authorised Version F2016L00907 registered 31/05/2016

  2. Section 5 (b) are from a part (the origin part) of Australian territory specified in column 1 of that item; and (c) are to another part (the destination part) of Australian territory specified in column 2 of that item. Regulated movements between parts of Australian territory Item Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Origin part Destination part Regulated things 1 Australian territory except Christmas Island and the Any of the following: Christmas Island and the airspace above it (a) goods; airspace above it (b) a conveyance 2 Christmas Island and the Australian territory except Any of the following: airspace above it Christmas Island and the (a) goods; airspace above it (b) a conveyance 3 Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands Any of the following: airspace above it and the airspace above (a) goods; them (b) a conveyance 4 Australian territory except Cocos (Keeling) Islands Any of the following: Cocos (Keeling) Islands and the airspace above (a) goods; and the airspace above them (b) a conveyance them 5 Cocos (Keeling) Islands Australian territory except Any of the following: and the airspace above Cocos (Keeling) Islands (a) goods; them and the airspace above (b) a conveyance them 6 Cocos (Keeling) Islands Christmas Island and the Any of the following: and the airspace above airspace above it (a) goods; them (b) a conveyance 7 Australian territory except Norfolk Island and the Any of the following: Norfolk Island and the airspace above it (a) goods; airspace above it (b) a conveyance 8 Norfolk Island and the Australian territory except Any of the following: airspace above it Norfolk Island and the (a) goods; airspace above it (b) a conveyance 9 Protected zone area and the Torres Strait permanent Any goods airspace above it biosecurity monitoring zone and the airspace above it 10 Protected zone area and the Australian territory except: Any of the following: airspace above it (a) the protected zone area (a) goods; and the airspace above (b) an aircraft that is intended it; and to land at a landing place (b) the Torres Strait in the destination part permanent biosecurity specified in column 2 of monitoring zone and the this item; airspace above it (c) a vessel that is longer than 7 metres, and is intended to be moored at a port in 2 Biosecurity (Movements between Parts of Australian Territory) Declaration 2016 OPC61858 - B Authorised Version F2016L00907 registered 31/05/2016

  3. Section 6 Regulated movements between parts of Australian territory Item Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Origin part Destination part Regulated things the destination part specified in column 2 of this item 11 Torres Strait permanent Australian territory except: Any of the following: biosecurity monitoring zone (a) the Torres Strait (a) goods; and the airspace above it permanent biosecurity (b) an aircraft that is intended monitoring zone and the to land at a landing place airspace above it; and in the destination part (b) the protected zone area specified in column 2 of and the airspace above this item; it (c) a vessel that is longer than 7 metres, and is intended to be moored at a port in the destination part specified in column 2 of this item Note 1: The provisions (the affected provisions) of the Act listed in section 619 of the Act apply as described in Subdivision B of Division 2 of Part 4 of Chapter 11 of the Act, subject to the exemptions provided by section 118 of the Biosecurity Regulation 2016 and section 6 and subsection 7(3) of the Biosecurity (Human Health) Regulation 2016 in relation to an actual or intended movement (however described) of goods or a conveyance described in this section (see subsection 618(1) of the Act). Note 2: Notice may not need to be given under section 120 of the Act in relation to goods that are, or are intended to be, brought from the origin part specified in column 1 of item 9, 10 or 11 in the above table (the relevant item) to the destination part specified in column 2 of the relevant item (see section 16 of the Biosecurity Regulation 2016). Note 3: The operator of an aircraft or vessel that is intended to enter, or that enters, the destination part specified in column 2 of an item in the above table (the relevant item) from the origin part specified in column 1 of the relevant item may not need to give a report under section 193 of the Act (see sections 50 and 51 of the Biosecurity

  4. Regulation 2016). 6 Application of this instrument to Norfolk Island (1) Items 7 and 8 of the table in section 5 of this instrument apply on and after 1 July 2016. (2) This section is repealed at the start of 2 July 2016. Biosecurity (Movements between Parts of Australian Territory) Declaration 2016 3 OPC61858 - B Authorised Version F2016L00907 registered 31/05/2016

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