Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A00585:clause:1_66aa:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A00585
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 66AA (pt 1/3)
Character Range: 117173–119842

66AA  General powers of quarantine officers in relation to premises

Nature of powers

 (1) The powers that a quarantine officer may exercise under paragraph 66AB(1)(b), subparagraph 66AC(4)(a)(ii) or paragraph 66AE(1)(b) or 66AG(1)(b) in relation to particular premises are as follows:
 (a) to search the premises and any thing on the premises;
 (b) to examine any thing on the premises;
 (c) to take photographs (including video or audio recordings) or to make sketches of the premises or any thing on the premises;
 (d) to take extracts from, or make copies of, any document on the premises;
 (e) to secure the premises or any thing on the premises;
 (f) if tests are to be carried out on samples taken of any thing on the premises and the quarantine officer thinks it is necessary to do so, to remove the samples from the premises for the purpose of conducting the tests;
 (g) to order into quarantine any infected goods found on the premises;
 (h) if the quarantine officer has reasonable grounds to suspect that infected goods have been or are on the premises—to carry out prescribed measures for regulating or preventing people, vehicles or goods from entering or leaving the premises, or prescribed measures of quarantine on or relating to the premises, during:
 (i) the search referred to in paragraph (a) and the examination referred to in paragraph (b); and
 (ii) the taking of samples of goods found on the premises or the conducting of tests on such samples; and
 (iii) any period for which infected goods found on the premises remain on the premises, whether because of an approval of the premises under section 46A or otherwise; and
 (iv) such period after the treatment of infected goods found on the premises as the quarantine officer considers, on reasonable grounds, to be a period during which there is a danger of the spread of diseases or pests because of those goods having been on the premises;
 (i) to affix on or near the premises notices in relation to quarantine that have been approved by a Director of Quarantine;
 (j) to trap or destroy animals on the premises;
 (k) to exercise any other powers that the quarantine officer has under this Act in respect of the premises or infected goods found on the premises.

Powers in respect of vehicles

 (2) If, while a quarantine officer is entitled to exercise powers referred to in subsection (1) in relation to premises, any vehicle leaves the premises without the permission of the quarantine officer, the quarantine officer may exercise those powers, so far as relevant, in relation to the vehicle as if it were part of the premises.

Extension of meaning of exposed

 (3) For the purposes