{"id":"F2021L00731","name":"Biosecurity (First Point of Entry—Cocos (Keeling) Islands Airport) Determination 2021","slug":"biosecurity-first-point-of-entry-cocos-keeling-islands-airport-determination-2021","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":440881,"registerId":"F2021L00731-fast-fetch-1775956350951","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-12","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Biosecurity (First Point of Entry—Cocos (Keeling) Islands Airport) Determination 2021","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\n![Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia](image.001.jpeg)\n\n \n\nBiosecurity (First Point of Entry—Cocos (Keeling) Islands Airport) Determination 2021\n\nI, Barbara Cooper, as delegate of the Director of Biosecurity, make the following determination.\n\nDated  8 June  2021\n\nBarbara Cooper\n\nAssistant Secretary  Biosecurity Operations Division  Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment\n\n \n\nContents\n\nPart 1—Preliminary\n\n1  Name\n\n2  Commencement\n\n3  Authority\n\n4  Definitions\n\nPart 2—First point of entry\n\n5  First point of entry—aircraft\n\n6  First point of entry—goods\n\nPart 3—Biosecurity entry points\n\n7  Biosecurity entry points—aircraft\n\n8  Biosecurity entry points—goods\n\nPart 4—Conditions\n\n9  Conditions—notifying Agriculture Department of changes\n\n \n\n \n\nPart 1—Preliminary\n\n1  Name\n\n  This instrument is the Biosecurity (First Point of Entry—Cocos (Keeling) Islands Airport) Determination 2021.\n\n2  Commencement\n\n (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.\n\n \n\n- Commencement information\n- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3\n- Provisions Commencement Date/Details\n- 1. The whole of this instrument 16 June 2021. 16 June 2021\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.\n\n (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.\n\n3  Authority\n\n  This instrument is made under subsection 223(1) of the Biosecurity Act 2015.\n\n4  Definitions\n\nNote: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in section 9 of the Act.\n\n  In this instrument:\n\nAct means the Biosecurity Act 2015.\n\naircraft means an aircraft (as defined by section 9 of the Act) that is subject to biosecurity control.\n\ngoods means goods (as defined by section 19 of the Act):\n\n (a) that are subject to biosecurity control; or\n\n (b) in relation to which an exposed goods order is in force.\n\nPart 2—First point of entry\n\n5  First point of entry—aircraft\n\n  Cocos (Keeling) Islands Airport is a first point of entry for aircraft generally.\n\n6  First point of entry—goods\n\n  Cocos (Keeling) Islands Airport is a first point of entry for goods other than live horses.\n\nNote: For other matters relating to whether particular goods may be brought into a particular first point of entry, see sections 173 and 174 of the Act (which deal with prohibited goods and conditionally non‑prohibited goods) and any determinations made under those sections.\n\nPart 3—Biosecurity entry points\n\n7  Biosecurity entry points—aircraft\n\nNote: An aircraft must be brought to a biosecurity entry point at a first point of entry if there is a biosecurity entry point for the aircraft at that first point of entry (see section 238 of the Act). If there are no biosecurity entry points for aircraft at a first point of entry, this requirement does not apply to aircraft landing there. This determination does not designate any area of Cocos (Keeling) Islands Airport as a biosecurity entry point for aircraft.\n\n8  Biosecurity entry points—goods\n\n  Each area of Cocos (Keeling) Islands Airport specified in column 2 of an item of the following table is designated as a biosecurity entry point for goods, or goods included in a class of goods, specified in column 1 of the item.\n\n \n\n- Biosecurity entry points—goods\n- Item Column 1Goods Column 2Areas\n- 1 Baggage Cocos (Keeling) Islands Airport International Terminal\n\n\nNote 1: If an aircraft has arrived at Cocos (Keeling) Islands Airport and is carrying goods mentioned in the table that are to be unloaded from the aircraft, those goods must be brought to a biosecurity entry point for those goods as soon as practicable (see section 147 of the Act).\n\nNote 2: This determination does not designate biosecurity entry points for other goods for which Cocos (Keeling) Islands Airport is a first point of entry, so the requirement in section 147 of the Act does not apply to the unloading of those other goods.\n\nPart 4—Conditions\n\n9  Conditions—notifying Agriculture Department of changes\n\n (1) The determination of Cocos (Keeling) Islands Airport as a first point of entry by this instrument is subject to the conditions in this section.\n\n (2) If the owner (or, if there is more than one owner, an owner) of Cocos (Keeling) Islands Airport becomes aware that there has been, or will be, a change to the business entity operating:\n\n (a) Cocos (Keeling) Islands Airport; or\n\n (b) a biosecurity entry point at Cocos (Keeling) Islands Airport;\n\nthe owner (or, if there is more than one owner, an owner) must give the Agriculture Department, in writing, notice of the change as soon as practicable after becoming aware that the change has occurred or will occur.\n\n (3) If the lessee (if any) (or, if there is more than one lessee, a lessee) of Cocos (Keeling) Islands Airport becomes aware that there has been, or will be, a change to the business entity operating:\n\n (a) Cocos (Keeling) Islands Airport; or\n\n (b) a biosecurity entry point at Cocos (Keeling) Islands Airport;\n\nthe lessee (or, if there is more than one lessee, a lessee) must give the Agriculture Department, in writing, notice of the change as soon as practicable after becoming aware that the change has occurred or will occur.\n\n (4) If a person or body that is responsible for carrying out operations at Cocos (Keeling) Islands Airport proposes to make a change referred to in subsection (5), the person or body must give the Agriculture Department, in writing, reasonable notice of the proposed change.\n\n (5) For the purposes of subsection (4), the changes are as follows:\n\n (a) a change to the procedures at Cocos (Keeling) Islands Airport providing for biosecurity measures to be taken to manage the level of biosecurity risk associated with operations carried out at Cocos (Keeling) Islands Airport;\n\n (b) a change to the facilities or amenities available at Cocos (Keeling) Islands Airport for biosecurity officials and human biosecurity officers to perform functions or exercise powers under the Act at Cocos (Keeling) Islands Airport;\n\n (c) a change to the procedures at Cocos (Keeling) Islands Airport that may affect the ability of a person who carries out operations at Cocos (Keeling) Islands Airport to identify biosecurity risks associated with those operations;\n\n (d) a change to the procedures at Cocos (Keeling) Islands Airport that may affect the ability for biosecurity officials or human biosecurity officials to be informed of any identified biosecurity risks associated with operations carried out at Cocos (Keeling) Islands Airport;\n\n (e) a change to the procedures at Cocos (Keeling) Islands Airport for managing any other factors that may contribute to, or affect, the level of biosecurity risk associated with operations carried out at Cocos (Keeling) Islands Airport.\n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"Unauthenticated. Configure AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY or use a provider module. Learn more: https://ai-sdk.dev/unauthenticated-ai-gateway","source":"analysis-cron"},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This is a standard, narrow administrative determination made under the Biosecurity Act 2015. It performs exactly the function intended by its enabling provision (section 223(1)): designating a specific location as a first point of entry with appropriate conditions. There is no scope creep or expansion beyond the original statutory purpose."},"complexity_factors":["Short instrument with only 9 sections across 4 Parts","Minimal defined terms (only 3: 'Act', 'aircraft', 'goods')","Simple conditional logic limited to notification requirements in section 9","Single table with only 2 columns and 1 row for biosecurity entry points","No nested exceptions or complex cross-referencing beyond basic references to the Biosecurity Act 2015","Straightforward structure: preliminary matters, first point of entry declaration, biosecurity entry points, and conditions"],"plain_english_summary":"This determination designates Cocos (Keeling) Islands Airport as a first point of entry for international aircraft and most goods (excluding live horses), making its International Terminal the place baggage is taken for biosecurity checks. The airport owner/operator must notify the Agriculture Department of changes to operators, biosecurity facilities, procedures, or anything affecting risk management. It brings the islands into Australia’s biosecurity network, allowing local international arrivals while protecting the mainland from pests, diseases, and contaminants."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument confines its effect to designating Cocos (Keeling) Islands Airport as a first point of entry for aircraft and most goods (excluding live horses) and to naming the International Terminal baggage area as a biosecurity entry point for baggage. The text contains no provision purporting to amend the Biosecurity Act or to alter prior, broader delegations; it simply establishes where, and which parties must notify, for biosecurity purposes at this airport (ss 5–9)."},"complexity_factors":["Narrow, location-specific subject matter (designation of a single airport as a first point of entry and a single baggage biosecurity entry point) (ss 5–6, 8).","Cross-references to multiple provisions of the Biosecurity Act 2015 (definitions, ss 147, 173–174, 223, 238) that determine operative effects and duties.","Limited exceptions and caveats (goods excluding live horses; no aircraft biosecurity entry point designated at the airport) that create conditional applicability (s6; note to s7).","Notification and timing obligations that use imprecise standards—\"as soon as practicable\" and \"reasonable notice\"—which create administrative discretion and potential compliance ambiguity (s9(2)–(4)).","Division of responsibilities among multiple private actors (owner(s), lessee(s), operators) which can complicate compliance and enforcement lines (s9(2)–(4))."],"plain_english_summary":"This determination names Cocos (Keeling) Islands Airport as a first point of entry for aircraft and for goods except live horses, and designates the International Terminal baggage area as a biosecurity entry point for baggage (ss 5–6, 8). Owners, lessees and operators must notify the Agriculture Department of changes affecting biosecurity arrangements, and goods unloaded that are subject to control must be brought to designated entry points when required (s9; note re s147)."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/biosecurity-first-point-of-entry-cocos-keeling-islands-airport-determination-2021","history":"/api/acts/biosecurity-first-point-of-entry-cocos-keeling-islands-airport-determination-2021/history","analysis":"/api/acts/biosecurity-first-point-of-entry-cocos-keeling-islands-airport-determination-2021/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/biosecurity-first-point-of-entry-cocos-keeling-islands-airport-determination-2021/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/biosecurity-first-point-of-entry-cocos-keeling-islands-airport-determination-2021/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/biosecurity-first-point-of-entry-cocos-keeling-islands-airport-determination-2021/documents"}}