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(3) "or the Cocos Islands" after "Australia" (first occurring);
    (g) by inserting in sub-section (3) "or the Cocos Islands, as the case may be," after "Australia" (second occurring);
    (h) by inserting in sub-section (3) "or the Cocos Islands" after "Australia" (last occurring);
    (j) by inserting in sub-sections (4) and (5) "or the Cocos Islands" after "Australia" (wherever occurring); and
    (k) by omitting sub-section (6) and substituting the following sub-section: "(6) For the purposes of this section and of any proclamation under this section, a person shall be deemed to enter Australia or the Cocos Islands from a place outside Australia or the Cocos Islands, as the case may be, if he has been in that place within 21 days before his arrival in Australia or the Cocos Islands, as the case may be.".
(2) If any proclamation under section 20b of the Principal Act was in force
immediately before the commencement of this Act, the proclamation shall continue to have effect after the commencement of this Act until revoked as if it had been made under section 20b of the Principal Act as amended by this Act and had declared the place specified in it to be a place in relation to which that section as so amended shall apply in respect of Australia.

Mooring of vessels from proclaimed places
17. Section 32 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (1) "not having a certificate of pratique" and substituting "which has not been granted pratique having effect in that port".
18. Section 33 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section substituted:

Pratique
"33. (1) Subject to sub-section (2), where a quarantine officer is satisfied that an oversea vessel at, or about to arrive at, a port in relation to which the vessel has not been granted pratique is free from infection, the quarantine officer shall grant the vessel pratique having effect in that port and such other ports as he considers appropriate.
"(2) A quarantine officer may refuse to grant a vessel pratique if the quarantine officer has reasonable grounds to believe that section 75a applies to the vessel.
"(3) Pratique shall be granted to a vessel by giving the master of the vessel a certificate of pratique in the prescribed form or by giving the master particulars of the pratique by radio message or otherwise, but, where pratique is granted otherwise than by the giving of a certificate of pratique, a quarantine officer shall give the master a certificate of pratique in the prescribed form as soon as practicable after the vessel arrives at the port in which the pratique has effect or, if the pratique has effect in more than one port,