{"id":"F2016L00907","name":"Biosecurity (Movements between Parts of Australian Territory) Declaration 2016","slug":"biosecurity-movements-between-parts-of-australian-territory-declaration-2016","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":438782,"registerId":"F2016L00907-fast-fetch-1775955069324","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-12","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Biosecurity (Movements between Parts of Australian Territory) Declaration 2016","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![](image.001.jpeg)\n\n \n\nBiosecurity (Movements between Parts of Australian Territory) Declaration 2016\n\nWe, Daryl Quinlivan, Director of Biosecurity, and Anthony Hobbs, Director of Human Biosecurity, make the following declaration.\n\nDated 27 May 2016\n\nDaryl Quinlivan Anthony Hobbs\n\nDirector of Biosecurity Director of Human Biosecurity\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nContents\n\n1 Name\n\n2 Commencement\n\n3 Authority\n\n4 Definitions\n\n5 Regulated movements between parts of Australian territory\n\n6 Application of this instrument to Norfolk Island\n\n \n\n1  Name\n\n  This is the Biosecurity (Movements between Parts of Australian Territory) Declaration 2016.\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 At the same time as section 3 of the Biosecurity Act 2015 commences. 16 June 2016\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 618(2) of the Biosecurity Act 2015.\n\n4  Definitions\n\nNote 1: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Act, including the following:\n\n(a) affected provisions;\n\n(b) Australian territory;\n\n(c) conveyance;\n\n(d) goods;\n\n(e) protected zone area.\n\nNote 2: A reference to Australian territory includes Norfolk Island on and after 1 July 2016.\n\n  In this instrument:\n\nAct means the Biosecurity Act 2015.\n\nTorres Strait permanent biosecurity monitoring zone has the same meaning as in the Biosecurity Regulation 2016.\n\n5  Regulated movements between parts of Australian territory\n\n  Subdivision B of Division 2 of Part 4 of Chapter 11 of the Act applies to movements that:\n\n (a) are of a thing specified in column 3 of an item in the following table; and\n\n (b) are from a part (the origin part) of Australian territory specified in column 1 of that item; and\n\n (c) are to another part (the destination part) of Australian territory specified in column 2 of that item.\n\n \n\n- Regulated movements between parts of Australian territory\n- Item Column 1 Origin part Column 2 Destination part Column 3 Regulated things\n- 1 Australian territory except Christmas Island and the airspace above it Christmas Island and the airspace above it Any of the following:(a) goods;(b) a conveyance\n- 2 Christmas Island and the airspace above it Australian territory except Christmas Island and the airspace above it Any of the following:(a) goods;(b) a conveyance\n- 3 Christmas Island and the airspace above it Cocos (Keeling) Islands and the airspace above them Any of the following:(a) goods;(b) a conveyance\n- 4 Australian territory except Cocos (Keeling) Islands and the airspace above them Cocos (Keeling) Islands and the airspace above them Any of the following:(a) goods;(b) a conveyance\n- 5 Cocos (Keeling) Islands and the airspace above them Australian territory except Cocos (Keeling) Islands and the airspace above them Any of the following:(a) goods;(b) a conveyance\n- 6 Cocos (Keeling) Islands and the airspace above them Christmas Island and the airspace above it Any of the following:(a) goods;(b) a conveyance\n- 7 Australian territory except Norfolk Island and the airspace above it Norfolk Island and the airspace above it Any of the following:(a) goods;(b) a conveyance\n- 8 Norfolk Island and the airspace above it Australian territory except Norfolk Island and the airspace above it Any of the following:(a) goods;(b) a conveyance\n- 9 Protected zone area and the airspace above it Torres Strait permanent biosecurity monitoring zone and the airspace above it Any goods\n- 10 Protected zone area and the airspace above it Australian territory except:(a) the protected zone area and the airspace above it; and(b) the Torres Strait permanent biosecurity monitoring zone and the airspace above it Any of the following:(a) goods;(b) an aircraft that is intended to land at a landing place in the destination part specified in column 2 of this item;(c) a vessel that is longer than 7 metres, and is intended to be moored at a port in the destination part specified in column 2 of this item\n- 11 Torres Strait permanent biosecurity monitoring zone and the airspace above it Australian territory except:(a) the Torres Strait permanent biosecurity monitoring zone and the airspace above it; and(b) the protected zone area and the airspace above it Any of the following:(a) goods;(b) an aircraft that is intended to land at a landing place in the destination part specified in column 2 of this item;(c) a vessel that is longer than 7 metres, and is intended to be moored at a port in the destination part specified in column 2 of this item\n\n\nNote 1: The provisions (the affected provisions) of the Act listed in section 619 of the Act apply as described in Subdivision B of Division 2 of Part 4 of Chapter 11 of the Act, subject to the exemptions provided by section 118 of the Biosecurity Regulation 2016 and section 6 and subsection 7(3) of the Biosecurity (Human Health) Regulation 2016 in relation to an actual or intended movement (however described) of goods or a conveyance described in this section (see subsection 618(1) of the Act).\n\nNote 2: Notice may not need to be given under section 120 of the Act in relation to goods that are, or are intended to be, brought from the origin part specified in column 1 of item 9, 10 or 11 in the above table (the relevant item) to the destination part specified in column 2 of the relevant item (see section 16 of the Biosecurity Regulation 2016).\n\nNote 3: The operator of an aircraft or vessel that is intended to enter, or that enters, the destination part specified in column 2 of an item in the above table (the relevant item) from the origin part specified in column 1 of the relevant item may not need to give a report under section 193 of the Act (see sections 50 and 51 of the Biosecurity Regulation 2016).\n\n6  Application of this instrument to Norfolk Island\n\n (1) Items 7 and 8 of the table in section 5 of this instrument apply on and after 1 July 2016.\n\n (2) This section is repealed at the start of 2 July 2016.\n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The declaration appears to serve its original purpose: identifying specific internal movements between Australian territories that require biosecurity oversight. The scope has not expanded beyond this core function. The temporary Norfolk Island provision (section 6) was a transitional measure for the integration of Norfolk Island into the federal biosecurity framework on 1 July 2016, not a scope creep."},"complexity_factors":["Heavy reliance on external definitions — 'Torres Strait permanent biosecurity monitoring zone' is defined in a separate regulation (Biosecurity Regulation 2016), and multiple terms rely on the parent Act","Nested cross-references — section 5 triggers application of 'Subdivision B of Division 2 of Part 4 of Chapter 11' of the Act, with exemptions in sections 118 of one regulation and section 6/subsection 7(3) of another","Table-based structure with conditional logic — 11 items with varying combinations of origin/destination/thing combinations, including exceptions within table cells (e.g., item 10's 'except' clause)","Temporal limitation — section 6 creates a one-day application window for Norfolk Island provisions (1 July 2016 only) with automatic repeal","Geographic complexity — requires understanding of 'Australian territory' statutory definition, airspace inclusion, and specific zone boundaries"],"plain_english_summary":"This declaration designates certain movements of goods, vehicles and aircraft between parts of Australia (notably Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Norfolk Island and the Torres Strait zone) as subject to the Biosecurity Act 2015. That means people moving items or conveyances between those places and the mainland must follow special notification and reporting rules.\n\nIt matters because these territories pose distinct pest and disease risks; limited exemptions and specific Torres Strait/Norfolk Island timing rules also apply."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":6,"scope_assessment":{"changed":true,"description":"This instrument applies Subdivision B of Division 2 of Part 4 of Chapter 11 of the Act to a defined set of inter-territory movements (s5), explicitly covering specific outer territories and special zones and specifying which things (goods, conveyances, certain aircraft and vessels) are regulated. It also brings Norfolk Island within those items from 1 July 2016 (s6). The effect is an expansion/clarification of the Act’s territorial application to these named movements, subject to the noted regulatory exemptions (s5 notes)."},"complexity_factors":["Extensive cross-references to the Biosecurity Act 2015 and multiple regulations (see s3, Note 1 and Note 2 to s5).","A detailed 11-item table specifying multiple origin–destination permutations and which things are regulated (s5 table).","Different categories of regulated things (goods, conveyances, aircraft intended to land, vessels over 7 metres) with item-specific applicability (s5 items 9–11).","Conditional exemptions and reporting exceptions flagged in notes to s5 that point to other statutory provisions (notes referencing ss118, 120, 193 of the Act and ss16, 50–51 of Biosecurity Regulation 2016).","Dependence on defined terms whose meanings are in the Act or Regulations (eg. ‘protected zone area’, ‘Torres Strait permanent biosecurity monitoring zone’) (s4).","Commencement and temporal nuance for Norfolk Island (items 7–8 apply on and after 1 July 2016; s2 and s6), and an automatic repeal of s6(2) at start of 2 July 2016 (s6)."],"plain_english_summary":"This declaration makes a specific part of the Biosecurity Act apply to certain movements of goods and conveyances between parts of Australian territory (for example: mainland, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Norfolk Island, the protected zone and the Torres Strait monitoring zone) (see s5). It brings those inter-territory transfers under statutory biosecurity controls and related notice/report rules, subject to exemptions in the Biosecurity and Human Health Regulations. Items 7–8 begin to apply to Norfolk Island from 1 July 2016 (s6)."},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"Unauthenticated. Configure AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY or use a provider module. 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