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Quarantine Amendment Proclamation 2013 (No. 2)

I, Quentin Bryce AC CVO, GovernorGeneral of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Proclamation under the Quarantine Act 1908.

Signed and sealed with the Great Seal of Australia on 05 August 2013

Quentin Bryce

GovernorGeneral

By Her Excellency’s Command

Joel Fitzgibbon

Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

 

 

 

Contents

1 Name of Proclamation

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedule(s)

Schedule 1—Amendments

Quarantine Proclamation 1998

1  Name of Proclamation

  This Proclamation may be cited as the Quarantine Amendment Proclamation 2013 (No. 2).

2  Commencement

  This Proclamation commences on the day after it is registered.

3  Authority

  This Proclamation is made under the Quarantine Act 1908.

4  Schedule(s)

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1Amendments

 

Quarantine Proclamation 1998

1  Section 38 (table item 24)

Omit “oyster shell”, substitute “oyster shells that are not part of a manufactured article”.

2  Section 38 (after table item 24)

Insert:

 

24A

Manufactured article containing oyster shells, if free of insects, soil and other debris

3  Section 38 (table item 38)

Repeal the item, substitute:

 

38

Meat jerky (other than from avian meat) or biltong (other than from avian meat), if the product is:

(a) shelf stable; and

(b) imported in an amount up to 1 kilogram; and

(c) manufactured in a country on the DAFF FMD Approved Country List; and

(d) for the personal consumption of the person wishing to import the product

39

Meat jerky (from avian meat) or biltong (from avian meat), if the product is:

(a) shelf stable; and

(b) imported in an amount up to 1 kilogram; and

(c) for the personal consumption of the person wishing to import the product

 

4  Subsection 41(1) (table item 3)

Omit “, including mooncakes,”.

5  Subsection 41(2) (at the end of the table)

Add:

 

10

Mooncakes that:

(a) include egg; and

(b) do not include meat; and

(c) are shelf stable; and

(d) are for the personal consumption of the person wishing to import the product