Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations(1) If:
(a) a biosecurity officer conducts a ship sanitation certification inspection of a vessel; and
(b) the officer determines that the level of sanitation health risk associated with the vessel is acceptable;
the officer must issue the vessel with a ship sanitation control exemption certificate.
(2) A ship sanitation control exemption certificate issued under subsection (1) must be in the form approved under section 13.
(3) Subject to subsection (4), a ship sanitation control exemption certificate is in force for 6 months beginning on the day it is issued.
(4) A ship sanitation control exemption certificate ceases to be in force for a vessel if a ship sanitation control certificate is issued for the vessel.