Quarantine (Cocos Islands) Amendment Proclamation 2006 (No. 1)

Quarantine Act 1908

I, PHILIP MICHAEL JEFFERY, Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make this Proclamation under section 13 of the Quarantine Act 1908.

Signed and sealed with the
Great Seal of Australia
on 8 May 2006

P.M. JEFFERY
Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

PETER McGAURAN

Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

 

 

1 Name of Proclamation

  This Proclamation is the Quarantine (Cocos Islands) Amendment Proclamation 2006 (No. 1).

2 Commencement

  This Proclamation commences on the day after it is registered.

3 Amendment of Quarantine (Cocos Islands) Proclamation 2004

  Schedule 1 amends the Quarantine (Cocos Islands) Proclamation 2004.

Schedule 1 Amendments

(section 3)

 

[1] Section 3, definition of canned

omit

[2] Section 3, definition of hermetically sealed container

substitute

hermetically‑sealed container means a container that, when closed, does not allow micro‑organisms or any other material to enter it.

[3] Section 3, after definition of Quarantine Act

insert

retorted means in an unopened hermetically‑sealed container that has been heated for a time, and to a temperature, sufficient to make the contents commercially sterile.

[4] Section 16, table 7, after item 31

insert

31A

Rhizopus spp.

[5] Section 17, table 8, item 15

omit

canned

insert

retorted

[6] Section 21, definition of animal product, paragraph (i)

substitute

 (i) gelatine.

[7] Section 24, table 9, item 8

substitute

8

An article containing rawhide, if:

 (a) it is intended for the personal use of the person seeking to import the article; and

 (b) it is to be imported by itself or with no more than 4 other articles of the same kind; and

 (c) it is treated on arrival, before release from quarantine, to limit the level of quarantine risk to one that is acceptably low

[8] Section 24, table 9, item 18

omit

Gelatin,

insert

Gelatine,

[9] Section 24, table 9, item 25, paragraph (a)

omit

canned

insert

retorted

[10] Section 25, definition of processed fruit or vegetable

omit

canned,

insert

retorted,

[11] Schedule 1

insert in the appropriate alphabetical order (determined on a letter‑by‑letter basis)

Aquabirnavirus infection

Astacus astacus bacilliform virus infection

Goldfish haematopoietic necrosis

New Japan virus infection of salmonids

Salmon lice infestation (Lepeophtheirus salmonis)

Withering syndrome of abalone (Candidatus Xenohaliotis californiensis)