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Biosecurity Act 2014
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### sec.474A Report about audit for approval to operate approved biosecurity accreditation system
This section applies if an auditor conducts an audit of an applicant’s biosecurity accreditation systems relevant to an application for approval to operate an approved biosecurity accreditation scheme.
The auditor must give a report about the audit to the following persons within 14 days after completing the audit, unless the auditor has a reasonable excuse—
the applicant;
the chief executive.
Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.
The report must include all of the following information—
the auditor’s name;
the days the audit started and ended, and the time spent conducting the audit;
the address of, or other information sufficient to identify, the place at which the audit was conducted;
details of the applicant’s biosecurity accreditation systems audited;
whether, in the auditor’s opinion, the biosecurity accreditation system includes the processes, equipment, personnel and resources necessary for the applicant to operate the scheme;
other information prescribed by regulation.
s 474A ins 2017 No. 7 s 109
(sec.474A-ssec.1) This section applies if an auditor conducts an audit of an applicant’s biosecurity accreditation systems relevant to an application for approval to operate an approved biosecurity accreditation scheme.
(sec.474A-ssec.2) The auditor must give a report about the audit to the following persons within 14 days after completing the audit, unless the auditor has a reasonable excuse— the applicant; the chief executive. Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.
(sec.474A-ssec.3) The report must include all of the following information— the auditor’s name; the days the audit started and ended, and the time spent conducting the audit; the address of, or other information sufficient to identify, the place at which the audit was conducted; details of the applicant’s biosecurity accreditation systems audited; whether, in the auditor’s opinion, the biosecurity accreditation system includes the processes, equipment, personnel and resources necessary for the applicant to operate the scheme; other information prescribed by regulation.
- (a) the applicant;
- (b) the chief executive.
- (a) the auditor’s name;
- (b) the days the audit started and ended, and the time spent conducting the audit;
- (c) the address of, or other information sufficient to identify, the place at which the audit was conducted;
- (d) details of the applicant’s biosecurity accreditation systems audited;
- (e) whether, in the auditor’s opinion, the biosecurity accreditation system includes the processes, equipment, personnel and resources necessary for the applicant to operate the scheme;
- (f) other information prescribed by regulation.