Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00422:reg:2:p73
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00422
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 2 (pt 73/102)
Character Range: 233649–236463

(b) include recommendations that any of the following actions be taken:
 (i) action to address any non‑compliance with a requirement to which the audit relates;
 (ii) action to ensure that any such non‑compliance does not recur;
 (iii) action to address the risk of a potential non‑compliance with a requirement to which an audit may relate;
 (iv) action to assess the effectiveness of an action referred to in subparagraph (i), (ii) or (iii).
 (5) Within 14 business days after the audit is completed or ends, the auditor must:
 (a) give the audit report to the Secretary in a manner approved by the Secretary; and
 (b) give a copy of the audit report to the relevant person for the audit.
Note: For the relevant person for an audit, see section 269 of the Act.

Part 2—Assessments

Division 1—General

9‑6  References to assessment in this Part
  In this Part, a reference to an assessment is a reference to an assessment of prescribed livestock, prescribed live animals or prescribed animal reproductive material under Part 2 of Chapter 9 of the Act.

Division 2—Carrying out assessments

9‑7  Circumstances in which assessment may be required or permitted
  For the purposes of subsection 277(2) of the Act, the Secretary may require or permit an assessment to be carried out at any stage of operations to prepare prescribed livestock, prescribed live animals or prescribed animal reproductive material for export.

9‑8  Process to be followed after assessment completed
 (1) For the purposes of section 279 of the Act, this section makes provision for and in relation to the process to be followed after the completion of:
 (a) an assessment that was required or permitted to be carried out under section 9‑7 of this instrument; or
 (b) an assessment that was required to be carried out under paragraph 241(c) of the Act for the purpose of making a decision in relation to:
 (i) an application for an export permit for prescribed livestock, prescribed live animals or prescribed animal reproductive material; or
 (ii) an application to vary an export permit for prescribed livestock, prescribed live animals or prescribed animal reproductive material or the conditions of such an export permit.
 (2) The assessor must give a written notice to the Secretary and the relevant person for the assessment stating whether the assessor reasonably believes the following in relation to the prescribed livestock, prescribed live animals or prescribed animal reproductive material:
 (a) that the requirements of the Act in relation to the export of the livestock, live animals or animal reproductive material have been complied with, or will be complied with before the livestock, live animals or animal reproductive material are imported into the importing country;
 (b) that importing country requirements relating to