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Quarantine Amendment Act 1985

No. 2 of 1985

TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section
  1. Short title, &c.
  2. Commencement
  3. Scope of quarantine
  4. Interpretation
  5. Repeal of sections 8a and 9 and substitution of new sections —
      8a. Officers responsible for human quarantine
      8b. Officers responsible for animal and plant quarantine
      9. Appointment of officers responsible for human quarantine
      9aa. Appointment of officers responsible for animal and plant quarantine
  6. Insertion of new section—
      10b. Delegation by Director of Quarantine
  7. Proclamation of ports of entry, &c.
  8. Permission to enter place other than first port of entry
  9. Health reports
 10. Mooring of vessels from proclaimed places
 11. Pratique
 12. Grant of pratique to installations
 13. Quarantine surveillance
 14. Order to perform quarantine
 15. Medical examination for possible pulmonary tuberculosis
 16. Vessel or installation having communicable disease on board
 17. Power to permit vessel to proceed on voyage
 18. Goods ordered into quarantine
 19. Liability of owner or agent for expenses of quarantine
 20. Powers of inspection
 21. Inspection of installations
 22. Quarantine information to be given to travellers to Australia
 23. Vessels involved in certain offences
 24. Regulations
 25. Transitional interpretative provisions
 26. Transitional provisions relating to instruments

Quarantine Amendment Act 1985
No. 2 of 1985

An Act to amend the Quarantine Act 1908
[Assented to 29 March 1985]
BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

Short title, &c.
1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Quarantine Amendment Act 1985.
(2) The Quarantine Act 19081 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

Commencement
2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Scope of quarantine
3. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting "man" and substituting "human beings".

Interpretation
4. Section 5 of the Principal Act is amended—
(a) by inserting after the definition of "By authority" in sub-section (1) the following definition:
"'Chief Quarantine Officer' means—
(a) where the expression is used in a context that relates
only to human quarantine—a Chief Quarantine Officer (Human Quarantine);
(b) where the expression is used in a context that relates only to animals—a Chief Quarantine Officer (Animals);
(c) where the expression is used in a context that relates only to plants—a Chief Quarantine Officer (Plants); or
(d) in any other case—a Chief Quarantine Officer (Human Quarantine), a Chief Quarantine Officer (Animals) or a Chief Quarantine Officer (Plants);";
(b) by inserting after the definition of "Coral Sea area" in sub-section (1) the following definition:
"'Director of Quarantine' means—
(a) where the expression is used in a context that relates only to