Federal Register of Legislation
Quarantine Amendment Act 1999
No. 196, 1999
Quarantine Amendment Act 1999
No. 196, 1999
An Act to amend the Quarantine Act 1908, and for related purposes
Contents 1 Short title................................... 2 Commencement............................... 3 Schedule(s)..................................
Schedule 1—Amendment of the Quarantine Act 1908
Quarantine Amendment Act 1999
No. 196, 1999
An Act to amend the Quarantine Act 1908, and for related purposes
[Assented to 23 December 1999]
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Quarantine Amendment Act 1999.
2 Commencement
(1) Subject to this section, this Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
(2) Item 86 of Schedule 1 commences on the same day as the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.
(3) The remaining items of Schedule 1 commence on a day to be fixed by Proclamation.
(4) If those remaining items of Schedule 1 do not commence under subsection (3) within the period of 6 months beginning on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent, they commence on the first day after the end of that period.
3 Schedule(s)
Subject to section 2, each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1—Amendment of the Quarantine Act 1908
1 Subsection 2B(1) After "quarantinable disease", insert "or quarantinable pest".
2 Subsections 2B(3) and (4) Repeal the subsections, substitute:
(3) A person is guilty of an offence if: (a) a direction is given to the person under subsection (2); and (b) the person fails to comply with the direction.
Maximum penalty: Imprisonment for 10 years.
We try to embed the page this law was scraped from. If the site blocks framing, you still get the link and a local excerpt.
Last checked with source on —
Checking whether the official page can be embedded…
Plain-English simplify of this law: a short summary, key points, and both sides of the argument. Generated on first view via Replicate, then cached. Vote on what helps your study.
No study brief is cached for this law yet. Sign up to generate a plain-English brief.
Sign up to generate