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This Act has been repealed and is no longer in force. It is retained for historical reference.
This instrument prescribes the operational rules implementing the Quarantine Act: it sets the quarantine signals, required health reports and forms, inspection and clearance hours, quarantine periods, detailed disinfection and fumigation methods, and controls for animals and plants, together with fees and penalties. It binds masters, medical officers, importers, passengers and crew to reporting, inspection and treatment, and empowers quarantine officers, the Chief Quarantine Officer and the Minister to detain, disinfect, destroy, grant permits and levy charges. It matters because it assigns costs to owners/importers, imposes compliance burdens, and creates administrative discretion.
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STATUTORY RULES.
1917. No 112.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE QUARANTINE ACT 1908-1915.
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Quarantine Act 1908-1915 to come into operation forthwith.
Dated this eighteenth day of May, One thousand nine hundred and seventeen.
R. M. FERGUSON,
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
J. A. JENSEN,
Minister for Trade and Customs.
Part I.—Preliminary.
Citation.
Repeal.
(2) All Regulations under the Quarantine Act in force at the making of these Regulations (Statutory Rules No. 88, 145 and 190 of 1915, and No. 279 of 1916) are hereby repealed.
Parts.
Part I.—Preliminary.
Part II.—General Provisions.
Part III.—Quarantine of Vessels, Persons, and goods generally.
Part IV. Special Measures against Plague and Cholera.
Part V.—Miscellaneous.
Part VI.—Quarantine of Animals.
Part VII.—Quarantine of Plants.
Part II.—General Provisions.
Quarantine Signal—Section 23.
(1) From sunrise to sunset:—
(a) For oversea vessels requiring pratique, 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 lights (two red and one white, each being not less than eight inches in diameter) 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 an equilateral triangle with the apex (the white light) above.
Part III.—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:—
(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.
(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 any vessel, the master of the vessel 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.
(2) The master of a vessel in port shall forthwith give notice in writing to a quarantine officer of every case of any prescribed disease which was on his vessel when she arrived in the port or which has arisen on his vessel since she arrived in the port.
Penalty: Fifty pounds.
23. The quarantine signal shall be as prescribed.
Under the Quarantine Act 1908, the Master and the Medical Officer are liable to a penalty of £100 for refusal or omission to give a true account and a true reply to any question, and for making a false statement in answer or for wilfully misleading a quarantine officer they are liable to two years’ imprisonment.
Health Report—Section 27.
Commonwealth of Australia.
Quarantine Act 1908-1915.
Health report and answers to questions as to the present and recent 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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