Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A02883:body:0:p4
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A02883
Segment Type: other
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Character Range: 7730–10519

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 Director of Quarantine".

Quarantine surveillance
14. Section 34 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after paragraph (1) (c) the following paragraph:
     "(ca) permit any members of the crew and their effects to leave the vessel; or".

Removal from vessels or installations of goods in quarantine
15. Section 44a of the Principal Act is amended by omitting paragraph (5) (b) and substituting the following paragraph:
     "(b) where the vessel has, in accordance with the permission of the Minister given under section 20aa, been brought to an Australian installation—a part of the installation approved for the purposes of this sub-section by the Minister.".

Goods ordered into quarantine
16. Section 48 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting sub-section (2) and substituting the following sub-sections:
"(2) Subject to sub-section (4), if the quarantine officer in charge of any goods (not being live animals) ordered into quarantine under this Act believes on reasonable grounds that the goods cannot be effectively treated or disinfected, and ought not to be released from quarantine, he may cause the goods to be destroyed.
"(3) Subject to sub-section (4), if a Chief Quarantine Officer or a person authorized by a Chief Quarantine Officer to perform duties under this sub-section believes on reasonable grounds that any live animals ordered into quarantine under this Act cannot be effectively treated or disinfected, and ought not to be released from quarantine, he may cause the animals to be destroyed.
"(4) Where the value of any goods to which sub-section (2) or (3) applies exceeds $200, the goods shall not be destroyed without the written approval of the Minister.
"(5) Where the quarantine officer in charge of any goods ordered into quarantine under this Act believes on reasonable grounds that the goods cannot be effectively treated or disinfected without damaging the goods, the quarantine officer may, by notice in writing given to the owner of the goods, notify the owner that the treatment or disinfection of the goods is likely to damage the goods and request the owner to agree to the goods being treated or disinfected.

"(6) Where—
     (a) a notice is given to the owner of goods pursuant to sub-section (5); and
     (b) the owner does not, before the expiration of 30 days after receiving the notice, give notice in writing to the Director of Quarantine stating that the owner agrees to the goods being treated or disinfected,
the goods are forfeited to the Commonwealth and a Chief Quarantine