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### sec.474B Report about audit for compliance, nonconformance or check audit
This section applies if an auditor conducts a compliance, nonconformance or check audit of an approved operator’s operation of an approved biosecurity accreditation system.
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 approved operator;
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 operations audited;
whether, in the auditor’s opinion, the operations comply or do not comply with the approval conditions or the scheme;
the reasons why the auditor considers the operations comply or do not comply with the approval conditions or the scheme;
if the operations do not comply with the approval conditions or the scheme—details of action taken, or proposed to be taken, to remedy the noncompliance;
whether, in the auditor’s opinion—
an auditor needs to conduct a nonconformance audit of the operations in relation to any noncompliance identified in the audit; or
the frequency of compliance audits for the operations should be changed, and if so, the reasons why the auditor considers the frequency should be changed;
other information prescribed by regulation.
s 474B ins 2017 No. 7 s 109
(sec.474B-ssec.1) This section applies if an auditor conducts a compliance, nonconformance or check audit of an approved operator’s operation of an approved biosecurity accreditation system.
(sec.474B-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 approved operator; the chief executive. Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.
(sec.474B-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 operations audited; whether, in the auditor’s opinion, the operations comply or do not comply with the approval conditions or the scheme; the reasons why the auditor considers the operations comply or do not comply with the approval conditions or the scheme; if the operations do not comply with the approval conditions or the scheme—details of action taken, or proposed to be taken, to remedy the noncompliance; whether, in the auditor’s opinion— an auditor needs to conduct a nonconformance audit of the operations in relation to any noncompliance identified in the audit; or the frequency of compliance audits for the operations should be changed, and if so, the reasons why the auditor considers the frequency should be changed; other information prescribed by regulation.
- (a) the approved operator;
- (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 operations audited;
- (e) whether, in the auditor’s opinion, the operations comply or do not comply with the approval conditions or the scheme;
- (f) the reasons why the auditor considers the operations comply or do not comply with the approval conditions or the scheme;
- (g) if the operations do not comply with the approval conditions or the scheme—details of action taken, or proposed to be taken, to remedy the noncompliance;
- (h) whether, in the auditor’s opinion— (i) an auditor needs to conduct a nonconformance audit of the operations in relation to any noncompliance identified in the audit; or (ii) the frequency of compliance audits for the operations should be changed, and if so, the reasons why the auditor considers the frequency should be changed;
- (i) an auditor needs to conduct a nonconformance audit of the operations in relation to any noncompliance identified in the audit; or
- (ii) the frequency of compliance audits for the operations should be changed, and if so, the reasons why the auditor considers the frequency should be changed;
- (i) other information prescribed by regulation.
- (i) an auditor needs to conduct a nonconformance audit of the operations in relation to any noncompliance identified in the audit; or
- (ii) the frequency of compliance audits for the operations should be changed, and if so, the reasons why the auditor considers the frequency should be changed;