New South Wales Consolidated Acts

BIOSECURITY ACT 2015 - SECT 50

50 Emergency measures

(1) The
"emergency measures" are the measures that the Secretary establishes under an emergency order to respond to a biosecurity emergency.

(2) The Secretary may specify, as emergency measures, any measures that the Secretary decides are reasonably necessary to respond to the biosecurity emergency concerned.

(3) The emergency measures are to be no more onerous than the Secretary considers necessary having regard to the nature of the biosecurity emergency.

(4) In deciding on the emergency measures, the Secretary is to have regard to the principal objects of an emergency order and any other matters the Secretary considers are relevant.

(5) The emergency measures may apply--

(a) within an emergency zone, and

(b) outside an emergency zone, but only if the Secretary considers that reasonably necessary having regard to the nature of the biosecurity emergency.

(6) The emergency measures may--

(a) prohibit, regulate or control the doing of any thing, or

(b) require or authorise the doing of any thing.

(7) A power to require the doing of a thing includes a power to require a person to arrange for that thing to be done.