New South Wales Consolidated Acts

BIOSECURITY ACT 2015 - SECT 134

134 Detention or treatment of persons

(1) An authorised officer cannot do any of the following in a biosecurity direction, except as expressly authorised by this Act in the case of an emergency--

(a) prohibit, regulate or control the movement of a person,

(b) require a person to undergo any treatment measures or require treatment measures to be carried out in relation to a person.

(2) An authorised officer cannot, in a biosecurity direction, require a person to provide samples of the person's blood, hair, saliva or any other body part or body fluid.

(3) Subsection (1)(a) does not prevent a biosecurity direction being imposed in relation to any biosecurity matter, premises, activity or thing that has an impact on the movement of a person but is not imposed for the purpose of restricting the movement of a person.

Note : For example, a biosecurity direction could prohibit a person from taking a particular animal or plant out of premises. This direction may have an impact on the movement of a person but is not imposed for that purpose.