Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

BIOSECURITY REGULATION 2016 - REG 16

    Notice is not required to be given under section   120 of the Act in relation to any of the following goods:

  (a)   baggage;

  (b)   goods included in a consignment to which paragraph   68(1)(e) of the Customs Act 1901 applies;

  (c)   waste;

  (d)   goods that are, or are intended to be, brought into Australian territory on an aircraft or vessel that is an exempt exposed conveyance;

  (e)   goods that are, or are intended to be, brought into Australian territory on an aircraft or vessel that would have been an exempt exposed conveyance except that there are human remains, or persons with signs or symptoms of a listed human disease, on board;

  (f)   elasmobranch or teleost fish that:

  (i)   are caught by a vessel that is not an exposed conveyance; and

  (ii)   are brought, or are intended to be brought, into Australian territory on the vessel in the course of a voyage that commences in Australian territory and ends, or is intended to end, in Australian territory;

  (g)   goods on board an aircraft or vessel at the commencement of a flight or voyage that commences in Australian territory and is intended to end at a place outside Australian territory if:

  (i)   the aircraft or vessel returns to Australian territory during the flight or voyage; and

  (ii)   on return the goods are, or are intended to be, unloaded at a landing place or port in Australian territory; and

  (iii)   the aircraft or vessel is not an exposed conveyance;

  (h)   goods that are, or are intended to be, brought from a part of Australian territory that is in the protected zone into another part of Australian territory;

  (i)   goods that are, or are intended to be, brought from the Torres Strait permanent biosecurity monitoring zone into another part of Australian territory.

Note 1:   Section   120 of the Act applies in relation to goods referred to in paragraph   (h) or (i) because of the Biosecurity (Movements between Parts of Australian Territory) Declaration   2016 and subsection   618(1) of the Act. The goods are treated as having entered Australian territory from outside Australian territory.

Note 2:   This section does not affect any requirement to report a reportable biosecurity incident in relation to the goods under subsection   155(1) or 156(1) of the Act. That requirement does not apply in relation to goods referred to in paragraph   (h) or (i) that do not become subject to biosecurity control because of section   118 of this instrument.