Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

BIOSECURITY ACT 2015 - SECT 189

    The main objects of this Chapter are:

  (a)   to provide for the assessment of the level of biosecurity risk associated with conveyances entering Australian territory from outside Australian territory, including by:

  (i)   controlling the places where those conveyances can land or be moored in Australian territory; and

  (ii)   controlling the movement of conveyances that are subject to biosecurity control while they are in Australian territory; and

  (b)   to provide for biosecurity measures to be taken in relation to conveyances referred to in paragraph   (a) if the level of biosecurity risk associated with them is considered to be unacceptable; and

  (c)   to give effect to Australia's rights and obligations in relation to ship sanitation for the purposes of the International Health Regulations.

Note:   In this Chapter, a conveyance does not include a conveyance (the carried conveyance ) brought or imported into Australian territory from outside Australian territory on board another conveyance until the carried conveyance is released from biosecurity control as goods (see section   16).