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Biosecurity Act 2014
sec.141What is a registrable biosecurity entity
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### sec.141 What is a registrable biosecurity entity
A person is a registrable biosecurity entity if the person—
keeps the threshold number or more of designated animals; or
holds the threshold amount or more of designated biosecurity matter.
For subsection (1) , it does not matter whether the keeping or holding happens at 1 place or 2 or more places in the State.
However, for identifying a registrable biosecurity entity, 2 or more persons could, taken together, be a registrable biosecurity entity even though 1 of those persons, acting separately, could be a separate registrable biosecurity entity.
Persons A and B, acting in partnership, keep pigs. A and B together are a registrable biosecurity entity for the keeping of those pigs. Additionally, person A, acting alone and outside of the partnership, keeps other pigs. Person A is a separate registrable biosecurity entity for the keeping of the other pigs.
(sec.141-ssec.1) A person is a registrable biosecurity entity if the person— keeps the threshold number or more of designated animals; or holds the threshold amount or more of designated biosecurity matter.
(sec.141-ssec.2) For subsection (1) , it does not matter whether the keeping or holding happens at 1 place or 2 or more places in the State.
(sec.141-ssec.3) However, for identifying a registrable biosecurity entity, 2 or more persons could, taken together, be a registrable biosecurity entity even though 1 of those persons, acting separately, could be a separate registrable biosecurity entity. Persons A and B, acting in partnership, keep pigs. A and B together are a registrable biosecurity entity for the keeping of those pigs. Additionally, person A, acting alone and outside of the partnership, keeps other pigs. Person A is a separate registrable biosecurity entity for the keeping of the other pigs.
- (a) keeps the threshold number or more of designated animals; or
- (b) holds the threshold amount or more of designated biosecurity matter.