Quarantine Amendment Regulations 2003 (No. 2)1

Statutory Rules 2003 No. 3352

I, PHILIP MICHAEL JEFFERY, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Quarantine Act 1908.

Dated 18 December 2003

P. M. JEFFERY

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

WARREN TRUSS

Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

1 Name of Regulations

  These Regulations are the Quarantine Amendment Regulations 2003 (No. 2).

2 Commencement

  These Regulations commence on 1 March 2004.

3 Amendment of Quarantine Regulations 2000

  Schedule 1 amends the Quarantine Regulations 2000.

Schedule 1 Amendments

(regulation 3)

 

[1] Subregulation 10 (1), table, item 5

substitute

5

The place in Australia or the Cocos Islands where the vessel or installation is to arrive and:

 (a) if the vessel or installation is to berth at the place — the berth it will arrive at and its estimated time of arrival at the berth; and

 (b) if the vessel or installation is to anchor at the place — its estimated time of anchoring; and

 (c) its estimated time of departure from the place

[2] Subregulation 10 (1), table, item 6A

after

signing off

insert

and the number of crew members that will be signing off

[3] Subregulation 10 (1), table, after item 6A

insert

6B

If any passengers are to disembark from the vessel or installation while it is at a port of call in Australia or the Cocos Islands, the port at which the passengers will disembark and the number of passengers that will be disembarking

[4] Subregulation 10 (1), table, item 7

substitute

7

Whether, between the beginning of July and the end of September in the previous 24 months, the vessel or installation has been in a Russian Far East Port, being a port located:

 (a) between the parallels of latitude 35 N and 65 ; and

 (b) west of the meridian of longitude 147 E

[5] Subregulation 10 (1), table, item 8

omit

livestock or grain in the last 6 cargoes

insert

livestock, grain or meal (being meal that contains plant or animal, including fish or bird, material) in any of the last 10 cargoes

[6] Subregulation 10 (1), table, item 8A

substitute

8A

If the vessel or installation has carried livestock, grain or meal (being meal that contains plant or animal, including fish or bird, material) in any of the last 10 cargoes, the type of cargoes, the port at which the livestock, grain or meal was loaded, the port at which the livestock, grain or meal was discharged and the cleaning performed since the livestock, grain or meal was discharged

[7] Regulation 18, table, item 6A

after

signing off

insert

and the number of crew members that will be signing off

[8] Regulation 18, table, after item 6A

insert

6B

If any passengers are to disembark from the vessel or installation while it is at a port of call in Australia or the Cocos Islands, the port at which the passengers will disembark and the number of passengers that will be disembarking

[9] Regulation 18, table, item 7

substitute

7

Whether, between the beginning of July and the end of September in the previous 24 months, the vessel or installation has been in a Russian Far East Port, being a port located:

 (a) between the parallels of latitude 35 N and 65 ; and

 (b) west of the meridian of longitude 147 E

[10] Regulation 18, table, item 8

omit

livestock or grain in the last 6 cargoes

insert

livestock, grain or meal (being meal that contains plant or animal, including fish or bird, material) in any of the last 10 cargoes

[11] Regulation 18, table, item 8A

substitute

8A

If the vessel or installation has carried livestock, grain or meal (being meal that contains plant or animal, including fish or bird, material) in any of the last 10 cargoes, the type of cargoes, the port at which the livestock, grain or meal was loaded, the port at which the livestock, grain or meal was discharged and the cleaning performed since the livestock, grain or meal was discharged

Notes

1. These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 2000 No. 129, as amended by 2001 No. 154; 2002 Nos. 2, 60 and 285; 2003 No. 36.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 23 December 2003.