Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00015:section:631
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00015
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 631
Character Range: 1003903–1005173

631  Person complying with direction or request must not damage or destroy goods
 (1) This section applies in relation to a person if:
 (a) the Agriculture Minister, the Director of Biosecurity, a biosecurity officer or a biosecurity enforcement officer directs or requests the person to do a thing (including taking a biosecurity measure) in relation to goods for the purposes of this Act; and
 (b) the person is not:
 (i) a biosecurity officer; or
 (ii) a biosecurity enforcement officer; or
 (iii) a chief human biosecurity officer; or
 (iv) a human biosecurity officer; or
 (v) a person in charge of the goods.
 (2) The person contravenes this subsection if:
 (a) the person, in complying with the direction or request, does a thing, or omits to do a thing, that causes the destruction of or damage to the goods; and
 (b) either:
 (i) the person did not act in good faith in doing the thing, or omitting to do the thing, that caused the destruction of or damage to the goods; or
 (ii) the destruction or damage was not a reasonable or necessary result of complying with the direction or request in relation to the goods.

Civil penalty provision
 (3) A person is liable to a civil penalty if the person contravenes subsection (2).
Civil penalty: 120 penalty units.