Commonwealth Numbered Acts

QUARANTIME AMENDMENT ACT 1984 No. 19, 1984 - SECT 12

12. Section 33 of the Principal Act is amended-

   (a)  by inserting after sub-section (1) the following sub-section:

''(1A) Subject to sub-section (2), where-

   (a)  an oversea vessel is-

        (i)    in accordance with the permission of the Minister given under
               section 20AA; or

        (ii)   by reason of stress of weather or other reasonable cause,

at, or about to arrive at, a place in Australia or the Cocos Islands other
than a port declared to be a first port of entry or a first Cocos Islands port
of entry, as the case may be; and

   (b)  a quarantine officer is satisfied that the vessel is free from
        infection,

the quarantine officer shall grant the vessel pratique having effect in that
place and at such ports as he considers appropriate.'';

   (b)  by omitting from sub-section (3) ''the prescribed form'' (wherever
        occurring) and substituting ''a form approved by the Director of
        Quarantine''; and

   (c)  by omitting from sub-section (3) ''the port in which the pratique has
        effect or, if the pratique has effect in more than one port, at the
        first of those ports at which the vessel arrives'' and substituting
        ''the first port or place in which the pratique has effect''.