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Quarantine Regulations 2000
28Stores and waste may be secured
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#### 28 Stores and waste may be secured
(1) A quarantine officer may secure any stores or waste that are on an overseas vessel or overseas installation at a port in Australia, Christmas Island or the Cocos Islands to ensure that regulations 26 and 27 are complied with.
(2) A person must not interfere with the stores or waste, or the means of its security, without the master’s permission.
Penalty: 50 penalty units.
> Note: Port includes, in relation to an aircraft, any place at which an aircraft can land, whether a landing place or not, see subsection 5(1) of the Act.
(3) An offence under subregulation (2) is an offence of strict liability.
> Note: For strict liability, see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code.