Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

BIOSECURITY ACT 2015 - SECT 4

    The objects of this Act are the following:

  (a)   to provide for managing the following:

  (i)   biosecurity risks;

  (ii)   the risk of contagion of a listed human disease or any other infectious human disease;

  (iii)   the risk of listed human diseases or any other infectious human diseases entering Australian territory or a part of Australian territory, or emerging, establishing themselves or spreading in Australian territory or a part of Australian territory;

  (iv)   risks related to ballast water;

  (v)   biosecurity emergencies and human biosecurity emergencies;

  (b)   to give effect to Australia's international rights and obligations, including under the International Health Regulations, the SPS Agreement, the Ballast Water Convention, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the Biodiversity Convention.

Note:   The expression biosecurity risk referred to in subparagraph   (a)(i) has different meanings depending on whether it is for the purposes of Chapter   6 (managing biosecurity risks: monitoring, control and response), Part   3A of Chapter   11 (arrangements and grants for dealing with risks posed by diseases or pests) or another part of this Act (see sections   9, 310 and 614B).