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Biosecurity (Listed Human Diseases) Determination 2026

I, Emily Harper, Acting Director‑General of the Australian Centre for Disease Control, make the following determination.

Dated 11 May 2026

Emily Harper

Acting Director‑General of the Australian Centre for Disease Control

1 Name

This instrument is the Biosecurity (Listed Human Diseases) Determination 2026.

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.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this instrument	The day after this instrument is registered.	12 May 2026

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 subsection 42(1) of 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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

5 Listed human diseases

Each of the following human diseases is a listed human disease:

(a) Andes virus infection;

(b) human coronavirus with pandemic potential;

(d) Middle East respiratory syndrome;

(e) plague;

(f) severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS);

(g) smallpox;

(h) viral haemorrhagic fevers;

(i) yellow fever.