Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00015:section:9:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00015
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 9 (pt 3/14)
Character Range: 73253–76201

ballast water from a vessel (whether deliberately, accidentally or as part of a ballast water exchange); or
 (c) treating or circulating ballast water on a vessel for the purposes of ballast water management.
ballast water reception facility means a facility (including a vessel) for receiving ballast water from vessels for treatment or disposal.
ballast water record system for a vessel means a system for making and keeping records about the vessel's ballast water and ballast water operations.
Biodiversity Convention means the Convention on Biological Diversity, done at Rio de Janeiro on 5 June 1992, as in force for Australia from time to time.
Note: The Convention is in Australian Treaty Series 1993 No. 32 ([1993] ATS 32) and could in 2014 be viewed in the Australian Treaties Library on the AustLII website (http://www.austlii.edu.au).
biosecurity activities, in relation to an approved arrangement, has the meaning given by section 405.
biosecurity activity zone has the meaning given by subsection 395(1).
biosecurity activity zone determination means a determination made under subsection 395(1).
biosecurity control notice, in relation to goods that are subject to biosecurity control or a conveyance that is subject to biosecurity control, means a notice in the form approved by the Director of Biosecurity that states that the goods or conveyance is subject to biosecurity control.
Note: See sections 129 and 203.
biosecurity control order means an order made under section 353.
biosecurity control order warrant means a warrant issued as a result of the test in item 2 of the table in section 489 being met.
biosecurity emergency means a biosecurity emergency that is declared to exist under subsection 443(1).
biosecurity emergency declaration means a declaration made under subsection 443(1).
biosecurity emergency period means the period specified under paragraph 443(3)(c) in a biosecurity emergency declaration as the period during which the declaration is in force.
biosecurity enforcement officer means a person who is authorised under section 546 or 548 to be a biosecurity enforcement officer under this Act.
biosecurity entry point has the meaning given by section 13.
biosecurity industry participant has the meaning given by section 14.
biosecurity measures means measures to manage any of the following:
 (a) biosecurity risks;
 (b) the risk of contagion of a listed human disease;
 (c) the risk of listed human diseases:
 (i) entering Australian territory or a part of Australian territory; or
 (ii) emerging, establishing themselves or spreading in Australian territory or a part of Australian territory;
 (d) biosecurity emergencies and human biosecurity emergencies.
biosecurity monitoring zone means:
 (a) a permanent biosecurity monitoring zone; or
 (b) a temporary biosecurity monitoring zone.
biosecurity monitoring zone warrant means a warrant issued as a result of the test in item 4 of the table in section