16ADefinitions

16A Definitions biosecurity impact means an adverse effect on the economy, the environment or the community that arises, or has the potential to arise, from a biosecurity matter or a carrier introducing or spreading a disease into or within the Territory or any part of the Territory. biosecurity matter means any of the following: (a) livestock or any part of livestock; (b) an animal product; (c) a notifiable disease; (d) an animal pathogen; (e) a pathogen that can cause disease in a human via transmission from a livestock host to a human; (f) a non-living thing that: (i) occurs in or on a carrier or a thing mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (e); or (ii) may be ingested or absorbed by a carrier or a thing mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (e); (g) anything prescribed by regulation to be a biosecurity matter.

Livestock Act 2008 11 carrier means any thing (whether alive, dead or inanimate, including a human) that has, or is capable of having, any biosecurity matter on it, attached to it or contained in it.