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the payment day; or

          (b) a late payment fee that is payable in respect of a quarantine service is not paid;

    a Director of Quarantine may direct that no quarantine service is to be provided, or a particular quarantine service or kind of quarantine service is not to be provided, for the person who failed to make the payment until the basic fee, the deposit or the late payment fee, as the case may be, is paid.".

(2) A determination under subsection 86E(1) of the Principal Act that was in force immediately before the commencement of this section continues in force as if it had been made under subsection 86E(1B) of the Principal Act as amended by subsection (1) of this section.

Division 3—Compliance agreements

Object of Division

6. The object of this Division is to authorise the Commonwealth to enter into agreements with other persons for the carrying out by them of quarantine functions on behalf of the Commonwealth.

Insertion of new section

7. Before section 67 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted in Part VII.

Compliance agreements

"66B.(1) The Secretary to the Department, on behalf of the Commonwealth, may enter into an agreement (a 'compliance agreement') with a person in connection with the application of particular procedures under this Act in respect of goods that may be brought into Australia or the Cocos Islands in accordance with the agreement.

"(2) The terms of a compliance agreement must be in accordance with this section and the regulations.

"(3) A compliance agreement may provide that, in circumstances stated in the agreement, the Secretary to the Department may, by written notice given to a party to the agreement other than the Commonwealth, cancel the agreement or suspend its operation for a period, or until the happening of an event, stated in the notice.

"(4) A quarantine officer may notify a party to a compliance agreement other than the Commonwealth in writing of procedures under this Act to which the agreement is to extend in addition to those specifically referred to in the agreement and, if such a notification is given, the agreement has effect as if those procedures were referred to in it.

"(5) The regulations may require a compliance agreement to include provision for the giving of security for the proper observance of the agreement by a party other than the Commonwealth and, if security is so given under such a provision, the security may be enforced or forfeited regardless of any liability or penalty to which a person may be subject under this Act or the regulations.

"(6) A quarantine officer may release goods to which a compliance agreement applies from quarantine on the basis of