Biosecurity (Suspended Goods—Uncooked Prawns) Amendment (Exceptions) Determination 2017 (Cth)

Biosecurity (Suspended Goods—Uncooked Prawns) Amendment (Exceptions) Determination 2017 I, Daryl Quinlivan, Director of Biosecurity, make the following determination.

Dated 3 February 2017

Daryl Quinlivan Director of Biosecurity

Contents 1 Name 2 Commencement 3 Authority 4 Definitions 5 Reasons for making this determination 6 Schedules Schedule 1—Amendments Biosecurity (Suspended Goods – Uncooked Prawns) Determination 2017 Schedule 2—Reasons—prawns sourced from exclusive economic zone Schedule 3—Reasons—dried prawns and shelf‑stable prawn‑based food products Schedule 4—Reasons—bait for aquatic use, pet fish food and aquaculture feed

1 Name This is the Biosecurity (Suspended Goods—Uncooked Prawns) Amendment (Exceptions) Determination 2017. 2 Commencement (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Provisions Commencement Date/Details 1. The whole of this instrument On the day after registration of the instrument

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument. (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument. 3 Authority This instrument is made under subsection 182(1) of the Biosecurity Act 2015. 4 Definitions

Note 1: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Act, including the following: (a) ALOP; (b) Australian territory; (c) approved arrangement; (d) goods. Note 2: The term "exclusive economic zone" is defined in the Acts Interpretation Act 1901. In this instrument: Act means the Biosecurity Act 2015. principal determination means the Biosecurity (Suspended Goods – Uncooked Prawns) Determination 2017. proscribed class of goods means the class of goods to which Part 2 of the principal determination applies. Note: Part 2 of the principal determination applies to uncooked prawns and uncooked prawn meat: (a) including uncooked prawns and uncooked prawn meat that have been marinated for human consumption; but (b) not including: (i) uncooked prawns and uncooked prawn meat sourced from New Caledonia; or (ii) uncooked prawns and uncooked prawn meat processed into dumplings, spring rolls, samosas, other dim sum-type products and other similar products; or (iii) uncooked prawns and uncooked prawn meat which have been coated for human consumption by being breaded, crumbed or battered. shelf‑stable: goods are shelf‑stable if: (a) the goods have been commercially manufactured; and (b) the goods have been packaged by the manufacturer; and (c) the goods are in that package; and (d) the package has not been opened or broken; and (e) the goods are able to be stored in the package at room or ambient temperature; and (f) the goods do not require refrigeration or freezing before the package is opened. WSSV means white spot syndrome virus. 5 Reasons for making this determination For subsection 182(5) of the Act, my reasons for making this determination are as follows: (a) the principal determination suspends the bringing or importing into Australian territory of goods included in the proscribed class of goods; (b) having undertaken further assessment of the biosecurity risks associated with the proscribed class of goods, I am of the view that it is possible to except further goods from the suspension, for the detailed reasons set out in: (i) for uncooked prawns sourced from the exclusive economic zone, or uncooked prawn meat sourced from such prawns—Schedule 2; and (ii) for uncooked prawns or uncooked prawn meat processed into dried prawns or a prawn‑based food product that is shelf‑stable—Schedule 3; and (iii) for uncooked prawns or uncooked prawn meat processed into bait for aquatic use, pet fish food or aquaculture feed—Schedule 4. 6 Schedules Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.