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Quarantine Act 1908
45Performance of quarantine by persons
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#### 45 Performance of quarantine by persons
(1) All persons ordered into quarantine shall perform quarantine, and for that purpose may:
(a) be detained on board the vessel or installation;
(b) be detained upon the premises upon which they are found;
(c) be removed to and detained in a quarantine station; or
(d) be removed to and detained in any suitable place or building approved by a quarantine officer (which place or building shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be a quarantine station);
until released in accordance with this Act or the regulations; and while so detained shall be subject to the regulations regulating the performance of quarantine and the government of quarantine stations.
Penalty for breach of regulations
(2) No person ordered into quarantine shall commit any breach of the regulations regulating the performance of quarantine or the government of quarantine stations.
Maximum penalty: 30 penalty units.
Quarantine surveillance
(3) Where a person ordered into quarantine is not, in the opinion of a quarantine officer, actually suffering from a quarantinable disease, the quarantine officer may release the person under quarantine surveillance.
(3A) A person released under subsection (3) shall, while he or she is under quarantine surveillance, report to such person at such times and places as are directed by a quarantine officer.
Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.
(4) Any person who is under quarantine surveillance must comply with the regulations relating to quarantine surveillance.
Maximum penalty: 30 penalty units.
(5) An offence against this section is an offence of strict liability.