Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00015:section:257
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00015
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 257
Character Range: 434518–436753

257  Assessing and managing sanitation health risks
 (1) This section applies to a vessel in a port in Australian territory in the circumstances provided for by the scheme under paragraph 255(1)(h).
 (2) The following provisions of this Act (the applied provisions) apply in relation to the vessel, subject to the modifications set out in subsections (4) to (6), in the same way as those provisions apply in relation to a vessel that is subject to biosecurity control because of subsection 191(2):
 (a) Division 4 of Part 2 of this Chapter (assessment of level of biosecurity risk);
 (b) Division 5 of Part 2 of this Chapter (biosecurity measures to manage unacceptable level of biosecurity risk), other than the following provisions:
 (i) section 208 (to the extent that that section permits a biosecurity officer to require a conveyance to be treated in a manner that is likely to damage the conveyance);
 (ii) section 209 (treatment that may damage conveyance);
 (iii) section 210 (destruction of conveyance);
 (c) sections 552 to 557 (functions and powers of biosecurity officers and biosecurity enforcement officers);
 (d) sections 629 and 630 (abandoned and forfeited conveyances);
 (e) any other provision of this Act to the extent that it relates to the provisions applied by paragraphs (a) to (d).
 (3) The application of the applied provisions under this section is in addition to, and does not limit, any application that the applied provisions would otherwise have in relation to the vessel.

Modifications of the applied provisions
 (4) A reference in the applied provisions to the level of biosecurity risk associated with the vessel is taken to be a reference to the level of sanitation health risk associated with the vessel.
 (5) A reference in the applied provisions to biosecurity measures is taken to be a reference to measures to manage sanitation health risks.
 (6) A reference in the applied provisions to a biosecurity officer is taken to include a reference to a human biosecurity officer, and a reference to the Director of Biosecurity is taken to include a reference to the Director of Human Biosecurity.

Chapter 5—Ballast water and sediment

Part 1—Application and interpretation

Division 1—Introduction