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with sub-section (2a) may be granted subject to compliance with conditions or requirements, either before or after the importation of the thing to which the permit relates, by the holder of the permit, being conditions or requirements set out in the permit.".

Persons and goods subject to quarantine
8. Section 18 of the Principal Act is amended—
(a) by omitting from paragraph (1) (c) "and"; and

     (b) by adding at the end of sub-section (1) the following word and paragraph:
        "; and (e) every person who enters Australia or the Cocos Islands unlawfully.".

Vessels to enter certain ports
9. Section 20 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from paragraph (2) (b) all the words after "landward side of" and substituting "the baseline of the territorial sea of Australia or of the Cocos Islands, as the case may be,".

Vessels to be brought to mooring grounds
10. Section 26a of the Principal Act is amended—
     (a) by omitting from paragraph (b) "authorized in writing by the Director of Quarantine to grant approvals under this section"; and
     (b) by omitting from paragraph (b) "under the regulations".

Health reports
11. Section 27 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting "the prescribed form signed by him" and substituting "a form approved by the Director of Quarantine signed by the master".

Pratique
12. Section 33 of the Principal Act is amended—
     (a) by inserting after sub-section (1) the following sub-section:
    "(1a) Subject to sub-section (2), where—
         (a) an oversea vessel is—
            (i) in accordance with the permission of the Minister given under section 20aa; or
            (ii) by reason of stress of weather or other reasonable cause,
        at, or about to arrive at, a place in Australia or the Cocos Islands other than a port declared to be a first port of entry or a first Cocos Islands port of entry, as the case may be; and
         (b) a quarantine officer is satisfied that the vessel is free from infection,
     the quarantine officer shall grant the vessel pratique having effect in that place and at such ports as he considers appropriate.";
     (b) by omitting from sub-section (3) "the prescribed form" (wherever occurring) and substituting "a form approved by the Director of Quarantine"; and
     (c) by omitting from sub-section (3) "the port in which the pratique has effect or, if the pratique has effect in more than one port, at the first of those ports at which the vessel arrives" and substituting "the first port or place in which the pratique has effect".

Grant of pratique to installations
13. Section 33a of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (2) "the prescribed form" (wherever occurring) and substituting "a form approved by the