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BIOSECURITY ACT 2015 - SECT 84

Test for including a biosecurity measure in a human biosecurity control order

    An officer may include a biosecurity measure in a human biosecurity control order only if the officer is satisfied that the biosecurity measure contributes to managing the risk of:

  (a)   contagion of a listed human disease; or

  (b)   a listed human disease entering, or emerging, establishing itself or spreading in, Australian territory or a part of Australian territory.

Note 1:   Before including a biosecurity measure in a human biosecurity control order, an officer must be satisfied of the matters referred to in section   34 (the principles).

Note 2:   For when an individual is required to comply with a biosecurity measure included in a human biosecurity control order, see Subdivision C of Division   2.


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