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QUARANTINE (ANIMAL) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1995 NO. 246

STATUTORY RULES 1995 No. 246

Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Primary Industries and Energy

Quarantine Act 1908

Quarantine (Animal) Regulations (Amendment)

The Quarantine Act 1908 (the Act) provides for the sanitary regulation of the importation of animals with respect to the prevention of the introduction or spread of disease.

Subsection 87(1) of the Act provides, inter alia, that the Governor-General may make regulations, not in consistent with the Act, prescribing all matters which by this Act are required of permitted to be prescribed or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.

It is intended that Quarantine Proclamation provide for the sanitary control of the importation of cats and dogs. It is therefore necessary to delete current Regulation 24.

Details of the Regulations are set out below:

Regulation 1 provides for the date of commencement.

Regulation 2 provides for the Quarantine (Animals) Regulations to be amended.

Regulation 3 omits Regulation 24 of the Quarantine (Animals) Regulations.

The Regulations commence 1 September 1995.