(1) This section applies in relation to a person if:
(a) the Agriculture Minister, the Director of Biosecurity, a biosecurity officer or a biosecurity enforcement officer directs or requests the person to do a thing (including taking a biosecurity measure) in relation to goods for the purposes of this Act; and
(i) a biosecurity officer; or
(ii) a biosecurity enforcement officer; or
(iii) a chief human biosecurity officer; or
(iv) a human biosecurity officer; or
(v) a person in charge of the goods.
(2) The person contravenes this subsection if:
(a) the person, in complying with the direction or request, does a thing, or omits to do a thing, that causes the destruction of or damage to the goods; and
(i) the person did not act in good faith in doing the thing, or omitting to do the thing, that caused the destruction of or damage to the goods; or
(ii) the destruction or damage was not a reasonable or necessary result of complying with the direction or request in relation to the goods.
(3) A person is liable to a civil penalty if the person contravenes subsection (2).
Civil penalty: 120 penalty units.