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Details: F2007C00665
- F2007C00665
SR 2000 No. 129 Regulations as amended, taking into account amendments up to SLI 2007 No. 28
Registered 06 Sep 2007
End Date 11 Sep 2007
F2007C00665
This compilation was prepared on 6 September 2007
taking into account amendments up to SLI 2007 No. 28
Reader’s Guide 8
1 Name of Regulations [see Note 1] 15
2 Commencement 15
3 Application 15
11 When and how pre‑arrival information (except for aircraft) to be given 27
12 Pre‑arrival information for aircraft 28
13 When, how and where pre‑arrival information for aircraft to be given 28
14 Masters to report prescribed diseases (Act s 27A (4)) 29
15 When masters to report death 29
16 Operators to report intended importation of animals 30
17 When death or escape of animals to be reported 31
18 Matters about which masters etc must answer questions 32
19 Other matters that certain vessels must report 37
20 Requirement to complete or correct information 37
21 False or misleading information 38
21A Directions that pratique is not taken to have been granted 39
22 Requirement to ensure vessels and installations in sanitary condition 40
22A Ballast water information 40
23 Disinsection of overseas aircraft 42
24 Deratting certificates 42
24A Vector monitoring and control activities 43
25 Certificates specifying measures for vessels or installations leaving proclaimed places 43
26 Masters to ensure stores etc are not discharged etc 44
27 Stores etc not to be discharged etc 44
28 Stores and waste may be secured 44
29 Master’s permission 45
30 Control of animals that are not to be imported 45
31 When addresses to be given to quarantine officers 46
32 Yellow fever declared places 47
33 Travel from yellow fever declared places 47
34 Requirement for international vaccination certificates 47
35 What international vaccination certificates must contain 48
36 Orders must be in writing 49
37 Persons to whom orders may be given 49
38 Prescribed disease and period (Act s 35 (1A)) 50
39 Vessels and installations arriving from declared places 50
39A Notices to the Director of Human Quarantine 50
40 Prescribed laws (Act s 46A) 51
41 Certificate of release 51
42 Quarantine surveillance periods 52
43 Medical examination 53
44 Cost of medical services 53
45 Change of residence 54
46 Conditions of quarantine surveillance 54
47 Person under quarantine surveillance ordered into quarantine 55
48 Definitions for Part 5 56
49 Exempt goods 56
50 Manner of giving notice and information required 57
51 Low‑value goods 58
53 When lodgment of entry constitutes giving notice 59
54 Certain manifests taken to constitute notice of importation into Australia, Christmas Island or the Cocos Islands 60
55 Certain manifests taken to constitute notice of importation into Christmas Island or the Cocos Islands 60
56 Division does not apply to certain baggage and mail 61
57 Release and examination 61
58 False or misleading Incoming Passenger and Master and Crew Declaration Cards 62
59 Definitions for Division 2 63
60 When infringement notices may be served 63
61 Name and address of persons on whom infringement notices are served 64
62 Withdrawal of infringement notices 64
63 What must be in infringement notices 64
64 When prescribed penalty to be paid 66
65 What happens if prescribed penalty is paid 66
66 Refund of prescribed penalty if notices are withdrawn 67
67 Multiple infringement notices for single offence 67
68 Payments made by cheque 67
69 Effect of Part on institution and prosecution of proceedings 67
69A Scope of Part 6A 69
69B Definitions for Part 6A 69
69C Steps in an IRA 70
69D Time limits for submissions and comments 71
69E Time limits for completing IRAs 72
69F Failure to complete within time limits 72
69G Circumstances affecting completion of an IRA 72
69H Certain periods of time to be disregarded 72
69I Publication 73
69J Termination of an IRA 74
69K Risk analysis that has been started 74
69Z Definitions 76
70 Permit applications 76
71 Numbering for permits 76
72 Documentation and undertakings 77
73 Who may sign compliance agreements 77
74 Other provisions of compliance agreements not affected 78
75 Prescribed period (Act s 68 (9)) 78
76 Notice of seizure 78
77 Notices generally 78
78 Information given to Director or officers 79
79 Information given to masters of vessels or installations 79
80 Saving and Transitional 80
81 Repeal of Quarantine (General) Regulations 1956 81
82 Repeal of Quarantine (Animals) Regulations 81
83 Repeal of Quarantine (Plants) Regulations 82
Schedule 1 Prescribed Commonwealth laws 83
Schedule 2 Prescribed State or Territory laws 84
Part 1 New South Wales 84
Part 2 Victoria 85
Part 3 Queensland 86
Part 4 Western Australia 86
Part 5 South Australia 87
Part 6 Tasmania 88
Part 7 Australian Capital Territory 89
Part 8 Northern Territory 90
container has the meaning given by the Customs Convention on Containers, 1972 signed in Geneva on 2 December 1972 as affected by any amendment of the Convention that is in force on 23 June 2000.
Deratting Certificate has the meaning given by Article 53 of the International Health Regulations.
Deratting Exemption Certificate has the meaning given by Article 53 of the International Health Regulations.
DSS (Decision Support System) means the AQIS computer system of that name used to process information about ballast water and assess the quarantine risk of that water.
health administration has the meaning given by the International Health Regulations.
(a) is issued for the person under Article 79 of the International Health Regulations; and
International Health Regulations means the third edition of the International Health Regulations published by the World Health Organization, as amended and in force on 23 June 2000.
The type, net and gross tonnage and deadweight of the vessel or installation, and its number of cargo holds, tanks and decks
The names of the master, owner, operator and ship’s manager of the vessel or installation
The last 6 ports of call (or if a quarantine officer has notified a lesser number to the master of the vessel or installation, the lesser number notified) of the vessel or installation or, if any of those ports is in Australia, Christmas Island or the Cocos Islands, its last ports of call since it was last in Australia, Christmas Island or the Cocos Islands, and the dates of departure from those ports
The next 3 ports of call in Australia, Christmas Island or the Cocos Islands of the vessel or installation before it leaves Australia, Christmas Island or the Cocos Islands
If there are to be any crew changes while the vessel or installation is at a port of call in Australia, Christmas Island or the Cocos Islands, the port or ports at which crew members will be signing off and the number of crew members that will be signing off
If any passengers are to disembark from the vessel or installation while it is at a port of call in Australia, Christmas Island or the Cocos Islands, the port at which the passengers will disembark and the number of passengers that will be disembarking
Whether, between the beginning of July and the end of September in the previous 24 months, the vessel or installation has been in a Russian Far East Port, being a port located:
(a) between the parallels of latitude 35° N and 65° N; and
(b) west of the meridian of longitude 147°E
If the vessel or installation has been in a port mentioned in item 7 during the period mentioned in that item:
(a) whether, since last visiting such a port, the vessel or installation has been inspected by an agricultural authority of Australia, Canada, New Zealand or the United States of America and cleared as being free of Asian gypsy moth; and
(b) if the vessel or installation has not been inspected and cleared, whether there is on board the vessel or installation a certificate issued by a Russian agricultural authority during the last visit of the vessel or installation to such a port, certifying that the authority had inspected the vessel or installation and found it to be free of Asian gypsy moth egg masses
Whether the vessel or installation has carried livestock, grain or meal (being meal that contains plant or animal, including fish or bird, material) in any of the last 10 cargoes
If the vessel or installation has carried livestock, grain or meal (being meal that contains plant or animal, including fish or bird, material) in any of the last 10 cargoes, the type of cargoes, the port at which the livestock, grain or meal was loaded, the port at which the livestock, grain or meal was discharged and the cleaning performed since the livestock, grain or meal was discharged
The date and place of issue of the Deratting Certificate or the Deratting Exemption Certificate for the vessel or installation
If any person on board the vessel or installation died during the voyage, the number of deaths and the cause, or suspected cause, of each death
If any person on board the vessel or installation during the voyage is found to be suffering from an illness, the cause, or suspected cause, of the illness, any treatment that the person has had on board the vessel or installation during the voyage, and the number of people who are found to be suffering from the illness
If a symptom prescribed by subregulation 6 (1) presents itself in a person on board the vessel or installation during the voyage, the nature and cause (or suspected cause) of the symptom, any treatment that the person has had on board the vessel or installation, and the number of people in whom the symptom is present
If any live animal is on board the vessel or installation, the number of animals on board, and a description, including the health and condition, of the animals
Whether, since leaving the last port of call of the vessel or installation, any bees have been on board
The total mass (in tonnes) of ballast on board the vessel or installation and the maximum ballast capacity (in tonnes) of the vessel or installation
The last 3 locations where ballast water was taken up and the dates of the uptakes
The mass (in tonnes) of ballast water taken up for each tank at the last location
Whether a ballast water management plan applies to the vessel or installation and whether the plan has been implemented during the voyage
Any treatments applied to ballast water carried on, or discharged from, the vessel or installation during the voyage
If ballast water treatments were not carried out or not fully carried out, reasons for not carrying out treatments
Whether ballast water will be discharged while the vessel is in Australia, Christmas Island or the Cocos Islands or the installation is in Australian waters, and details of any proposed discharge, including dates, locations and mass (in tonnes) of discharge
If ballast water is to be discharged as mentioned in item 21, whether a full ballast water treatment or exchange was undertaken at sea, in accordance with the IMO Guidelines, before the vessel or installation arrived in Australia, Christmas Island, or the Cocos Islands, or Australian waters
If a full ballast water treatment or exchange was undertaken as mentioned in item 21A:
(a) the treatment or exchange method used; and
(b) if in any of the tanks or holds intended for discharge in Australia, Christmas Island, or the Cocos Islands, or Australian waters, the treatment or exchange was not conducted fully, the reasons for it not being conducted fully
Whether there is a current compliance agreement and, if so, whether the vessel or installation is operating in accordance with that agreement during the voyage
Note Section 66B of the Act makes provision for compliance agreements.
If a full ballast water treatment or exchange was not undertaken as mentioned in item 21A:
(a) whether ballast tank information has been entered into the DSS for a risk assessment on the ballast water to be discharged in Australia, Christmas Island, or the Cocos Islands, or Australian waters; and
(b) if so, the DSS risk assessment number given to the vessel or installation
If a DSS risk assessment found the ballast water to be of high risk, whether a ballast water treatment or exchange has been undertaken at sea before arriving in Australia, Christmas Island, or the Cocos Islands, or Australian waters and, if so:
(a) the ballast water treatment or exchange method used; and
(i) between 48 hours before and 12 hours before the estimated time of arrival of the vessel or installation; or
The type, net and gross tonnage and deadweight of the vessel or installation, the hull proper (in metres) of the vessel, and the number of cargo holds, tanks and decks of the vessel or installation
The last 6 ports of call of the vessel or installation or, if any of those ports is in Australia, Christmas Island or the Cocos Islands, its last ports of call since it was last in Australia, Christmas Island or the Cocos Islands, and the dates of departure from those ports
The next 3 ports of call in Australia, Christmas Island or the Cocos Islands of the vessel or installation before it leaves Australia, Christmas Island or the Cocos Islands, its estimated times of arrival at, and departure from, those ports
(b) west of the meridian of longitude 147° E
(a) whether, since last visiting such a port, the vessel or installation has been inspected and cleared as being free of Asian gypsy moth by an agricultural authority of Australia, Canada, New Zealand or the United States of America; and
The existence, health and condition of any plants on board the vessel or installation during the voyage
Whether a full ballast water treatment or exchange was undertaken at sea, in accordance with the IMO Guidelines, before the vessel or installation arrived in Australia, Christmas Island, or the Cocos Islands, or Australian waters
If a full ballast water treatment or exchange was undertaken as mentioned in item 27A:
(b) if the treatment or exchange was not conducted fully, the reasons for it not being conducted fully
Note Section 66B of the Act makes provision for compliance agreements
If a full ballast water treatment or exchange was not undertaken as mentioned in item 27A:
(a) whether ballast tank information has been entered into the DSS for a risk assessment on any ballast water to be discharged in Australia, Christmas Island, or the Cocos Islands, or Australian waters; and
Note 2 For the meaning of estimated time, hull proper and illness, see regulation 4.
Note 1 Regulation 10 prescribes certain information about ballast water that must be included in pre‑arrival reports for subsection 27A (2) of the Act.
Note 2 Regulation 18 prescribes certain matters about ballast water that a quarantine officer can require a master or medical officer to answer questions about under subsection 28 (1) of the Act.
Note For the issue of a Deratting Certificate, see Article 53 of the International Health Regulations.
(d) removal or modification of containers or other receptacles capable of holding water.
16 Aug 2007 (see
F2007L02427)
am. 2001 No. 154; 2003 No. 36; 2004 Nos. 40 and 360
Quarantine Amendment Regulations 2007 (No. 2) (2007 No. 233)
The following amendments commence on 12 September 2007:
[1] Regulation 4, definition of container
[2] Regulation 4, definitions of Deratting Certificate and Deratting Exemption Certificate
Regulations (1969).
[3] Regulation 4, definition of DSS
[4] Regulation 4, definition of health administration
[5] Regulation 4, definition of international certificate, paragraph (a)
Regulations (1969); and
[6] Regulation 4, definition of International Health Regulations
[7] Regulation 4, after definition of non‑scheduled flight
[8] Subregulation 10 (1)
[9] Subparagraph 11 (1) (a) (i)
[10] Regulation 18
[11] Subregulation 22A (4), notes 1 and 2
[12] Regulation 24, note
[13] Paragraph 24A (2) (d)
As at 6 September 2007 the amendments are not incorporated in this compilation.