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BIOSECURITY ACT 2015 - SECT 584

Disclosure for the purposes of a State or Territory managing risks

  (1)   An entrusted person may disclose relevant information to a State or Territory body if the disclosure is for the purpose of assisting the State or Territory body to perform its functions or duties, or exercise its powers, in relation to managing a risk covered by subsection   (2) for the State or Territory.

  (2)   The risk covered by this subsection for a State or Territory is:

  (a)   the likelihood of a disease or pest:

  (i)   entering the State or Territory or a part of the State or Territory; or

  (ii)   emerging, establishing itself or spreading in the State or Territory or a part of the State or Territory; and

  (b)   the potential for any of the following:

  (i)   the disease or pest to cause serious harm to human, animal or plant health in that State or Territory;

  (ii)   the disease or pest to cause serious harm to the environment in that State or Territory;

  (iii)   serious economic consequences in that State or Territory associated with the entry, emergence, establishment or spread of the disease or pest as mentioned in paragraph   (a).


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