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This Act has been repealed and is no longer in force. It is retained for historical reference.
These Regulations set the day‑to‑day rules that put the Quarantine Act 1908 into practice. They tell shipmasters, importers, passengers, owners and quarantine staff what signals, reports, vaccinations, inspections, tests, disinfection methods, quarantine periods, permits, fees and penalties are required to manage disease risk at ports.
Affected parties pay inspection, sustenance and detention charges and must produce certificates and submit to treatment; quarantine officers and the Chief Quarantine Officer exercise significant operational discretion over inspections, quarantine, release and disposal.
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STATUTORY RULES.
1909. No. 73.
PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE QUARANTINE ACT 1908.
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby certify that, on account of urgency, the following Regulations under the Quarantine Act 1908 should come into immediate operation and make the Regulations to come into operation forthwith as Provisional Regulations.
Dated this fifth day of July, One thousand nine hundred and nine.
DUDLEY,
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
R. W. BEST.
PART I.—PRELIMINARY.
Citation.
Parts.
Part I.—Preliminary.
Part II.—General Provisions.
Part III.—Relating to Quarantine of Vessels, Persons, and Goods generally.
Part IV.—Relating to Quarantine of Animals.
Part V.—Relating to Quarantine of Plants.
Part VI.—Miscellaneous.
PART II.—GENERAL PROVISIONS.
Quarantine Signal—Section 23.
(1) From sunrise to sunset:—
(a) For oversea vessels which have not been boarded by a quarantine officer, the flag known as flag Q, being a yellow flag of six breadths of bunting hoisted at the mainmast-head;
(b) For vessels having or suspected of having a quarantinable disease on board or actually performing quarantine, the flag known as the Commercial flag L, being a large flag of yellow and black, borne quarterly, hoisted at the mainmast-head;
(2) From sunset to sunrise, three red lights not less than eight inches in diameter and of such a character as to be visible on a clear night all round the horizon for a distance of two miles, and placed as nearly as practicable amidships, at distances of six feet apart, in the form of a triangle with the apex above.
PART III.—RELATING TO QUARANTINE OF VESSELS, PERSONS, AND GOODS GENERALLY.
Hours of Clearance of Vessels subject to Quarantine.
* The following are the sections of the Act relating to the Quarantine Signal:—
21. The master of every vessel subject to quarantine shall—
(a) hoist the quarantine signal at the mainmast-head of his vessel before she comes within one league of any port, and
(b) keep the quarantine signal hoisted at the mainmast-head of his vessel while entering or being in any port or quarantine station.
Penalty: One hundred pounds.
22. When the master of any vessel becomes aware that—
(a) any eruptive disease; or
(b) any disease attended with fever and glandular swellings; or
(c) any disease which he believes or suspects, or has reason to believe or suspect, to be a quarantinable disease—
has broken out on board his vessel, he shall forthwith (unless the vessel is actually performing quarantine under the supervision of a quarantine officer)—
(a) notify a quarantine officer of the breaking out of the disease, and
(b) hoist the quarantine signal at the mainmast-head of his vessel; and keep it so hoisted until he is authorized by a quarantine officer to take it down or until the vessel is released from quarantine.
Penalty: Fifty pounds.
23. The quarantine signal shall be as prescribed.
Health Report—Section 27.
5. The Health Report shall be in accordance with the following form:—
Commonwealth of Australia.
The Quarantine Act 1908.
Health report and answers to questions as to the present and previous state of the health of all persons on board, and as to the history and sanitary circumstances of the undermentioned vessel during the current voyage, by
Master* of the said vessel, and by Medical Officer of
the said vessel.
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