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BIOSECURITY ACT 2015 - SECT 118

Objects of this Part

    The main objects of this Part are:

  (a)   to provide for the assessment of the level of biosecurity risk associated with goods brought into Australian territory; and

  (b)   to provide for biosecurity measures to be taken in relation to those goods if the level of biosecurity risk associated with them is considered to be unacceptable.

Note:   In Parts   1 and 3 of this Chapter, goods includes a conveyance brought or imported into Australian territory from outside Australian territory on board another conveyance (for example a lifeboat being carried on a vessel) (see section   19).


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