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reference in that sub-section to the officer in charge of the quarantine station included a reference to a quarantine officer in the Cocos Islands.".

Performance of quarantine by vessel
23. Section 39 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:
"(2) Sub-section (1) has effect, in relation to a vessel in the Cocos Islands, as if the reference in that sub-section to the appointed quarantine station included a reference to the appointed place in the Cocos Islands.".

24. After section 44 of the Principal Act the following sections are inserted:

Removal from vessels of goods in quarantine
"44a. (1) In this section, 'prescribed vessel' means a vessel that is not subject to quarantine.
"(2) Except with the permission of a quarantine officer or in compliance with this Act or the Regulations, a person shall not remove from a prescribed vessel any goods on the vessel that are subject to quarantine unless they form part of the cargo of the vessel that is to be landed in the country, being Australia or the Cocos Islands, where the vessel is.
"(3) Except with the permission of a quarantine officer or in compliance with this Act or the Regulations, the master of a prescribed vessel shall not permit to be removed from the vessel any goods on the vessel that are subject to quarantine unless they form part of the cargo of the vessel that is to be landed in the country, being Australia or the Cocos Islands, where the vessel is.
"(4) If a quarantine officer so directs, a person shall not land from a prescribed vessel any goods on the vessel that are subject to quarantine and form part of the cargo of the vessel that is to be landed in the country, being Australia or the Cocos Islands, where the vessel is.
"(5) Except with the permission of a quarantine officer, where a person lands from a prescribed vessel any goods that are subject to quarantine and form part of the cargo of the vessel, he shall not land them at a place other than a part of the precincts of a wharf or airport that is a part approved for the purposes of this sub-section by a Chief Quarantine Officer.
Penalty: $10,000 or imprisonment for 5 years.

Landed cargo in quarantine
"44b. (1) Subject to sub-section (2), where goods that are subject to quarantine and formed part of the cargo of a vessel are landed in Australia or the Cocos Islands, a person shall not, except with the permission of a quarantine officer or for the purpose of taking the goods to a place approved for the purposes of this sub-section by