Section 4 - Biosecurity (Emergency Requirements—Remote Communities) Determination 2021 - Definitions

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Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Biosecurity Act 2015, including the following:

(a) Australian law;
(b) Australian territory;
(c) conveyance;
(d) exposed to;
(e) Health Department.

(1) In this instrument:

commercial primary production means:

(a) commercial primary production of:
(i) food; or
(ii) products that, with further processing, will become (at least in part) food; or
(b) commercial processing of primary products to make food from them; or
(c) provision of veterinary services for animals kept, used or bred for commercial primary production described in paragraph (a); or
(d) aquaculture; or
(e) agribusiness.

designated area means an area described in Schedule 1.

essential activity in a designated area means any of the following:

(a) providing any of the following for the benefit of one or more persons in the area:
(i) health care (including vaccination or testing for human coronavirus with pandemic potential);
(ii) child care;
(iii) disability care;
(iv) aged care;
(v) education;
(vi) services relating to prevention of, or recovery from, domestic violence;
(vii) services relating to child protection;
(viii) policing services;
(ix) emergency services;
(x) essential services of a kind typically provided by local government, such as rubbish collection;
(xi) services, benefits, programs or facilities that the Chief Executive Centrelink has the function of providing;
(b) providing correctional services in relation to one or more persons in the area;
(c) providing funerary services in the area;
(d) operating, maintaining, repairing or replacing:
(i) equipment for providing electricity, gas, water, medical services, telecommunications services or broadcasting services; or
(ii) other essential infrastructure in the area;
(e) providing or delivering food, fuel or household or medical supplies in the area;
(f) providing postal services or delivering mail in the area;
(g) transporting freight to or from a place in the area;
(h) conducting, or taking part in, a sitting of a court or tribunal in the area;
(i) continuing the construction in the area of housing or transport infrastructure that was in progress immediately before the commencement of this instrument;
(j) carrying out mining operations, or operations ancillary to mining operations, in the area in a manner that is agreed with a human biosecurity officer so as to minimise the extent to which other persons in the area are exposed to the persons carrying out those operations;
(k) carrying out commercial primary production in the area in a manner that is agreed with a human biosecurity officer so as to minimise the extent to which other persons in the area are exposed to the persons carrying out the production.

(a) obtaining medical care (including vaccination or testing for human coronavirus with pandemic potential) or medical supplies; (b) isolating because the person is, or may be, infected with human coronavirus with pandemic potential; (c) obtaining food, fuel or mail; (d) for a person who is engaged in an essential activity that can be undertaken from the premises where the person resides—visiting the person’s workplace to retrieve a computer or work materials; (e) for a person who is engaged in an essential activity, and who is the parent or guardian of a child—obtaining any of the following for the child, as appropriate: (i) child care; (ii) early childhood education; (iii) education in a primary or secondary school; (f) for a person who is the parent or guardian of a child—taking the child to another parent or guardian of the child, whether or not there is a formal arrangement in place in relation to the person or persons with whom the child lives or spends time with; (g) providing care or support to a family member or another person who is unable to care for themselves due to health, age or disability; or (h) providing care to an animal that is unattended; (i) obtaining goods or services from a person who is engaged in an essential activity that is, or includes, the provision of the goods or services; (j) an activity relating to the administration of justice, including attending: (i) a police station; or (ii) a court or other premises for a purpose relating to the justice or law enforcement system; (k) travelling directly to an airport to leave the Northern Territory; (l) attending a funeral at which there are no more than 10 other attendees in total, not including the persons providing the funeral services; (m) if there is no waste collection for the premises where the person resides—travelling directly to deposit waste at a waste management facility; (n) if the premises where the person resides has shared facilities—using the shared facilities; (o) an activity that the person is required or authorised to undertake by a law of the Commonwealth or the Northern Territory.