Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1985 No. 364 QUARANTINE (ANIMALS) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 1

1. Regulation 35 of the Quarantine (Animals) Regulations is amended-

   (a)  by omitting sub-regulation (1) and substituting the following
        sub-regulation:

"(1) Subject to sub-regulation (2), an animal which is ordered into quarantine
and conveyed to a quarantine station shall be detained in that quarantine
station for such period as the Director, or a person authorised by the
Director, determines.";

   (b)  by omitting from sub-regulation (2) all the words from and including

"number" to and including "elapsed" and substituting "expiration of the period
referred to in sub-regulation (1)"; and

   (c)  by omitting sub-regulations (4) and (5) and substituting the following
        sub-regulations:

"(4) The Director or a person authorised by the Director may direct that an
animal shall remain in a quarantine station for a longer period than that
referred to in sub-regulation (1) if-

   (a)  in the case of a dog or cat imported by air-

        (i)    the cage or box in which the animal was transported to
               Australia was not so constructed as to prevent the animal from
               coming into physical contact with any other animal, the seal on
               the cage or box was broken at the time of importation or the
               cage or box was unloaded from the aircraft in which the animal
               was transported at any intermediate place at which the aircraft
               landed during the flight; or

        (ii)   the Director or the person authorised by the Director, as the
               case may be, is of the opinion that the dog or cat cannot be
               released at the end of the period referred to in sub-regulation
               (1) without danger of introducing some disease; or

   (b)  in any other case-the Director or the person authorised by the
        Director, as the case may be, is of the opinion that the animal cannot
        be released at the end of the period referred to in sub-regulation (1)
        without danger of introducing some disease.

"(5) Where an animal that has been ordered into quarantine is conveyed to a
place approved under sub-section 46A (1) of the Act, a reference in this
regulation to a quarantine station shall be read as a reference to that
approved place.".