New South Wales Consolidated Acts

BIOSECURITY ACT 2015 - SECT 68

68 Control measures

(1) The
"control measures" are the measures that the Minister establishes under a control order to prevent, eliminate, minimise or manage the biosecurity risk or biosecurity impact to which the order relates.

(2) The Minister may specify, as control measures under a control order, any measures that the Minister decides are reasonably necessary to prevent, eliminate, minimise or manage the biosecurity risk or biosecurity impact to which the order relates.

(3) The control measures are to be no more onerous than the Minister considers necessary having regard to the nature of the biosecurity risk or biosecurity impact to which the order relates.

(4) In deciding on the control measures, the Minister is to have regard to the principal objects of a control order and any other matters the Minister considers relevant.

(5) The control measures may apply--

(a) within a control zone, and

(b) outside a control zone, but only if the Minister considers that reasonably necessary having regard to the nature of the biosecurity risk or biosecurity impact.

(6) The control 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.