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116 Civil penalty for failing to comply with a requirement of a human health response zone determination
A person to whom a requirement in a determination made under section 113 (human health response zone) applies must comply with the requirement.
Chapter 3—Managing biosecurity risks: goods
Part 1—Goods brought into Australian territory
117 Simplified outline of this Part
This Part deals with goods that are brought or imported into Australian territory from outside Australian territory.
Division 2 provides that the goods become subject to biosecurity control when they enter Australian territory.
Division 3 provides for notice to be given of goods that are, or are intended to be, brought into Australian territory and unloaded at a landing place or port.
Division 4 sets out powers that may be exercised to assess the level of biosecurity risk associated with goods that are subject to biosecurity control.
Division 5 provides for biosecurity measures to be taken in relation to goods that are subject to biosecurity control if the level of biosecurity risk associated with the goods is considered to be unacceptable.
Division 6 deals with unloading goods that are subject to biosecurity control at landing places or ports in Australian territory.
Division 7 deals with unloading goods that are subject to biosecurity control from a vessel that is displaying the prescribed quarantine signal.
Division 8 requires biosecurity incidents in relation to goods that are subject to biosecurity control to be reported to a biosecurity officer or the Director of Biosecurity.
Division 9 provides for the assessment and management of the level of biosecurity risk associated with goods that are exposed to goods that are subject to biosecurity control.
Division 10 deals with releasing goods from biosecurity control.
118 Objects of this Part
The main objects of this Part are:
(a) to provide for the assessment of the level of biosecurity risk associated with goods brought into Australian territory; and
(b) to provide for biosecurity measures to be taken in relation to those goods if the level of biosecurity risk associated with them is considered to be unacceptable.
Note: In Parts 1 and 3 of this Chapter, goods includes a conveyance brought or imported into Australian territory from outside Australian territory on board another conveyance (for example a lifeboat being carried on a vessel) (see section 19).
Division 2—Goods are subject to biosecurity control