Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

BIOSECURITY ACT 2015 - SECT 311

    The main objects of this Chapter are:

  (aa)   to enable information to be obtained about prohibited goods, suspended goods or certain conditionally non - prohibited goods that have been brought or imported into Australian territory and have been released from biosecurity control, for the purpose of assessing or managing the level of biosecurity risk associated with the goods; and

  (a)   to provide for the assessment of the level of biosecurity risk posed by a disease or pest that may be present in or on goods or premises in Australian territory; and

  (b)   to provide for biosecurity measures to be taken in relation to goods or premises in Australian territory if the level of biosecurity risk posed by a disease or pest that may be present in or on the goods or premises is considered to be unacceptable; and

  (c)   to provide for powers to be exercised in, or in relation to goods or premises in, certain areas in Australian territory for the purpose of managing biosecurity risks posed by diseases or pests that may pose an unacceptable level of biosecurity risk in, or in relation to, the area; and

  (d)   to provide for powers to be exercised in, or in relation to goods or premises in, certain areas in Australian territory for the purpose of monitoring whether a disease or pest that may pose an unacceptable level of biosecurity risk:

  (i)   has entered, or has emerged, established itself or spread in, the area; or

  (ii)   is likely to enter, or to emerge, establish itself or spread in, the area; and

  (e)   to provide for biosecurity measures to be taken for the purposes of preventing behaviours or practices that may cause, or contribute to, the entry into, or the emergence, establishment or spread in, Australian territory or a part of Australian territory of diseases (other than listed human diseases), or pests, that are considered to pose an unacceptable level of biosecurity risk.

Note 1:   This Chapter does not apply in relation to certain goods or conveyances (see section   312).

Note 2:   Premises include a conveyance (see paragraph   (a) of the definition of premises in section   9).

Note 3:   See section   310 in relation to the meaning of biosecurity risk in this Chapter.

Note 4:   Before exercising a power under this Chapter, a biosecurity official must be satisfied of the matters referred to in section   32 (the principles).