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BIOSECURITY ACT 2015 - SECT 68

Requiring an individual to remain at a place

  (1)   An officer who intends to impose a human biosecurity control order on an individual may require the individual to remain, for a period of no more than 6 hours, at the place where the individual was when the officer became satisfied that a human biosecurity control order should be imposed on the individual.

Note 1:   A non - Australian citizen who is required to remain at a place is entitled to consular assistance under section   102.

Note 2:   A person who does not comply with the requirement to remain at a place may be detained under Subdivision B of Division   4.

  (2)   Once the period has ended, the individual must not be required under subsection   (1) to remain at that place any longer.

Note:   However, the individual may be required under subsection   74(4) to remain at that place in order to comply with an isolation measure.


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