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BIOSECURITY ACT 2015 - SECT 452

Agriculture Minister may declare national response agency

  (1)   The Agriculture Minister may, in writing, declare any of the following to be a national response agency for the purposes of this Act:

  (a)   the Australian Defence Force;

  (b)   a Commonwealth body;

  (c)   a part of a Commonwealth body.

Note 1:   The Agriculture Department, including all biosecurity officers and biosecurity enforcement officers, is also a national response agency (see the definition of national response agency in section   9).

Note 2:   For variation and revocation, see subsections   33(3) and (3AA) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 .

  (2)   Before declaring the Australian Defence Force to be a national response Agency, the Agriculture Minister must consult the Minister having responsibility for the Australian Defence Force.

  (3)   A failure by the Agriculture Minister to comply with subsection   (2) does not affect the validity of the declaration.

  (4)   A declaration made under subsection   (1) is not a legislative instrument.


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