Biosecurity (Human Health) Amendment (Disinsection Exemption) Regulations 2018

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 30 August 2018

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Greg Hunt

Minister for Health

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Biosecurity (Human Health) Regulation 2016

1  Name

  This instrument is the Biosecurity (Human Health) Amendment (Disinsection Exemption) Regulations 2018.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Biosecurity Act 2015.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 1—Amendments

Biosecurity (Human Health) Regulation 2016

1  Subsection 7(3) (heading)

Repeal the heading, substitute:

Exemptions

2  At the end of section 7

Add:

 (4) The operator of an incoming aircraft is not required to comply with subsections (1) and (2) in relation to the aircraft if:

 (a) the level of biosecurity risk associated with the aircraft has been assessed as acceptable by a human biosecurity officer who is an officer or employee of the Health Department; and

 (b) the operator of the aircraft has been notified of that assessment.