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BIOSECURITY ACT 2015 - SECT 466

Setting traps and setting up equipment and other structures

  (1)   During a biosecurity emergency period, a biosecurity officer may set traps or set up equipment or other structures in relation to the declaration disease or pest, without a biosecurity response zone having been determined, for the purpose of preventing or controlling the establishment or spread of the declaration disease or pest in Australian territory or a part of Australian territory.

  (2)   Section   376 (unauthorised persons must not interfere with etc. equipment etc.) applies, in relation to the exercise of a power under subsection   (1), as if the exercise of the power were in accordance with a biosecurity response zone determination.


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