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BIOSECURITY AND AGRICULTURE MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS 2013
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
PART 1 -- Preliminary
1. Citation
2. Commencement
3. Terms used
4. Stock: meaning of term (section 6)
5. Prescribed potential carriers
6. Notes
7. Categories of declared pests
8. Categories of prohibited organisms
8A. Movement, introduction and supply requirements for purposes of r. 16, 17 and
8B. Organisms prescribed for s. 24
PART 2 -- Dealing with declared pests and prescribed potential carriers
Division 1 -- Keeping, breeding and cultivating
9. Keeping, breeding or cultivating declared pests
10. Keeping, breeding or cultivating thing infected or infested with declared pest
11. Keeping certain potential carriers
12. Caring for declared pest or potential carrier kept under permit
13. Escape of declared pest or potential carrier kept under permit
14. Seizure, treatment and destruction of declared pest or potential carrier kept under authorisation
15. Removal of enclosure when seizing organism or potential carrier
Division 2 -- Introduction and movement
16. Movement within DP area
17. Introduction into DP area
19. Movement of bees, hive products and appliances
Division 3 -- Other dealing
22. Releasing declared pests
23. Abandoning or releasing animals that become declared pests
24. Infection or infestation
25. Supply
26. Advertising supply of declared pests
PART 3 -- Control of declared pests
Division 1 -- General
27. Control measures: treatment (s. 30)
28. Control measures: isolation of infected or infested organism (s. 30)
29. Notification of presence of declared pest
30. Biosecurity signs
31. Identification of infected or infested potential carriers
32. Controls on gathering of vertebrate animals
33. Restrictions on testing for declared pests
34. Removal of stock from abattoir or feedlot
35. Biological control agents of declared pests
36. Notice to carry out search or surveillance of place or thing
37. Exemptions
38. Direction as to testing and treatment
39. Statement as to testing or treatment
39A. Removal of organism or potential carrier from inspection point or other place
40. Interference with declared pest control device: offence
Division 2 -- Poisons and traps
41. Term used: trap
42. Use of poison and traps
43. Protection of human health and life
44. Inspector must not use bait, poison or trap without notice
45. Trapping declared vertebrate pest animals
Division 2A -- Use of rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus
45A. Terms used
45B. Approval of training courses
45C. Authorisation to use rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus
Division 3 -- Barrier fences
46. Terms used
47. Barrier fences
48. Offence to use barrier fence without consent
49. Offence to damage or misuse barrier fence
50. Offence to drive or keep vertebrate animals near barrier fence
51. Offence to travel along barrier fence
Division 4 -- Payment for detection, removal or destruction of declared pests
52. Director General may fix rates of payment for detection, removal or destruction of declared pests
53. Claim for payment
54. Offences
PART 4 -- Quarantine of places
Division 1 -- General
55. Terms used
Division 2 -- Quarantine notices
56. Quarantine notice
57. Compliance with quarantine notice
58. Other persons bound by quarantine notice
59. Amendment or revocation of quarantine notice
60. Quarantine area
61. Amendment or revocation of quarantine area notice
62. Director General review: quarantine notice
63. SAT review: quarantine notice
Division 3 -- Provisions applying to places subject to pest control notice or quarantine notice
64. Warning signs
65. Restriction of entry
66. Movement directions
67. Approval for movement
68. Conditions of approval for movement
69. Offences in relation to approved movement
70. Duty of outgoing owner to notify Director General and new owner
71. Exemption from requirements of notices
PART 5 -- Import of organisms and potential carriers
72. Permitted import of prescribed potential carriers
73. Import of permitted organisms
74. Import of fish: exemption
75. Notice of intention to import
76. Notice of intention to import declared pest under Commonwealth permit
77. Information to be given by commercial passenger carrier to passengers
78. Disposal of organisms and potential carriers by commercial passenger carrier: s. 19(4)
79. Inspection and verification of imported organisms and prescribed potential carriers
PART 6 -- Inspection of conveyances and movement directions
81. Term used: inspection purposes
82. Inspection warning signs
83. Damage to signs
84. Inspector may require driver to stop
85. Transfer of control: directions
PART 7 -- Protection of agricultural activities
86. Directions about untended plants, bees or apiaries
86A. Bees to be kept in hives of approved design
87. Storage of hives
88. Prevention of robbing
89. Storage of hive products
90. Water to be provided to apiary sites
PART 8 -- Permits
Division 1 -- Grant or renewal of permit
91. Application for permit or renewal of permit
92. Further requirements for application by body corporate or partnership
93. Grant or renewal of permit
94. Form of permit
95. Permit granted to body corporate or partnership -- permit supervisor
96. Duration of permit
Division 2 -- Conditions on permit
97. Conditions
98. Contravention of conditions
Division 3 -- Amendment, suspension, revocation or surrender of permit
99. Amendment, revocation or suspension of permit
100. Immediate amendment or suspension of permit
101. Amendment, suspension or surrender on application by permit holder
Division 4 -- Review
102. Review
Division 5 -- Miscellaneous
103. Record keeping by permit holder
104. Return by permit holder
105. Falsely holding out
106. Transfer of permit
PART 9 -- Quarantine facilities
Division 1 -- Grant or renewal of approval
107. Application for approval of, or renewal of approval of, quarantine facility
108. Further requirements for application by body corporate or partnership
109. Statement by applicant and nominated facility supervisor
110. Approval of quarantine facility
111. Form of approval
112. Approval granted to body corporate or partnership -- facility supervisor
113. Duration of approval
Division 2 -- Conditions on approval
114. Conditions imposed by Director General
115. Contravention of conditions
Division 3 -- Amendment, suspension or revocation of approval
116. Revocation, suspension or amendment of approval
117. Immediate amendment or suspension of approval
118. Amendment, suspension or surrender on application
Division 4 -- Closure notices
119. Closure notices
120. Revocation or amendment of closure notice
Division 5 -- Review
121. Review
Division 6 -- Miscellaneous
122. Transfer of approval
123. Alteration of quarantine facility
124. Falsely holding out
PART 10 -- Fees, charges and costs
125. Fees and charges
126. Reduction, waiver or refund of fees and charges
127. Recovery of unpaid fees and charges
128. Recovery of costs of remedial action and other costs and expenses incurred under Act
129. Evidence as to fees, costs and expenses
PART 10A -- Industry funding schemes
Division 1 -- Appointments committee and review panel
129A. Terms used
129B. Appointments committee established
129C. Appointments committee member term of office and remuneration
129D. Review panel established
129E. Review panel member term of office and remuneration
129F. Review of applications for compensation and reimbursement
Division 2 -- Transitional provisions for Biosecurity and Agriculture Management Regulations Amendment (Industry Funding Schemes) Regulations 2020
Subdivision 1 -- Preliminary
129G. Terms used
Subdivision 2 -- Appointments committee
129H. Membership of appointments committee
129I. Saving of remuneration and allowances
Subdivision 3 -- Review panel
129J. Membership of review panel
129K. Saving of remuneration and allowances
129L. Pending reviews
PART 11 -- Miscellaneous
130. SAT review excluded: seizure of perishable things
131. False or misleading information
132. Interference with experiment: offence
133. Remedial action
134. Direction may be given orally or in writing
135. Publication of information: Act s. 185(1)(b)
PART 12 -- Repeal of regulations and transitional provisions
136. Term used: commencement day
137. Regulations repealed
138. Fees and expenses
139. Agriculture and Related Resources (Declared Plants and Restricted Animals) Regulations 1982
140. Agriculture and Related Resources Protection (Declared Animals) Regulations 1985
141. Agriculture and Related Resources Protection (Fencing) Regulations 1985
142. Agriculture and Related Resources Protection (Property Quarantine) Regulations 1981
143. Agriculture and Related Resources Protection (Small Hive Beetle) Regulations 2009
144. Agriculture and Related Resources Protection (Traps) Regulations 1982
145. Plant Diseases Regulations 1989
PART 13 -- Repealed Acts: transitional provisions
146. Agriculture and Related Resources Protection Act 1976
147. Plant Diseases Act 1914
SCHEDULE 1 -- Stock
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