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QUARANTINE (COCOS ISLANDS) REPEAL REGULATIONS 2004 2004 NO. 361

Subsection 87(1) of the Quarantine Act 1908 ("the Act") provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing all matters which by the Act are required or permitted to be prescribed or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.

Subsection 87(1B) of the Act provides that regulations may be made for the purpose of preventing the spread of diseases or pests to, or from, quarantine stations in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands ("the Cocos Islands") or for the purpose of preventing, eradicating or controlling diseases or pests in the Cocos Islands.

The Quarantine (Cocos Islands) Regulations 1982 ("the Cocos Islands Regulations") commenced on 18 August 1982. The Cocos Islands Regulations were made in response to the special quarantine security needs of the Cocos Islands arising from the appointment of a place on West Island of the Cocos Islands as a quarantine station. The appointment was made by proclamation by the Governor-General on 29 October 1981. The purpose of the quarantine station was to facilitate the importation of live animals to improve the genetic stock. However, this function has been superseded by advances in technology that have made it cheaper to import semen and embryos instead. The quarantine station has ceased operations and the appointment of the place on West Island as a quarantine station has been revoked. With the closure of the quarantine station, there is no longer a need for the complementary Cocos Islands Regulations.

The purpose of the Quarantine (Cocos Islands) Repeal Regulations 2004 (the Repeal Regulations) is to repeal the Cocos Islands Regulations.

Details of the Repeal Regulations are set out below:

Regulation 1 provides that the Repeal Regulations are named the Quarantine (Cocos Islands) Regulations Repeal 2004.

Regulation 2 provides that the Repeal Regulations commence on 1 January 2005.

Regulation 3 provides that the Repeal Regulations repeal the three Statutory Rules that comprise the Cocos Island Regulations.