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Biosecurity Act 2019
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167 Emergency zones
(1) For the purposes of this Act, an area is an emergency zone if the Minister specifies the area as an emergency zone as part of an emergency order in respect of the area.
(2) An emergency zone may be made up of one or more of the following, as specified in the emergency order:
(a) any premises, group of premises or part of premises or group of premises;
(b) any place, area or region;
(c) the whole, or any specified part, of Tasmania.
(3) An emergency order may provide for more than one emergency zone and for different classes of emergency zones.