Biosecurity (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act 2015 (62 of 2015)

Schedule 4   Application, saving and transitional provisions commencing later

Part 5   Co-regulatory approvals and compliance agreements

Division 2   Compliance agreements

55   Compliance agreements suspended or cancelled before commencement day

(1) This item applies in relation to a compliance agreement if:

(a) the agreement was suspended before the commencement day; or

(b) a notice suspending or cancelling the agreement had been given to the other party to the agreement before the commencement day and the notice had not taken effect before that day.

(2) The compliance agreement is taken to have been cancelled immediately before the commencement day.

Note: The other party may make an application under section 405 of the Biosecurity Act for approval of a proposed arrangement to carry out biosecurity activities to manage biosecurity risks associated with specified goods, premises or other things.

(3) If:

(a) the other party to the compliance agreement had been notified by a Director of Quarantine, in accordance with the compliance agreement, of directions in relation to matters covered by the compliance agreement; and

(b) the period during which the directions were required to be complied with had not ended before the commencement day;

the other party must continue to comply with the directions as if the compliance agreement had not been cancelled under subitem (2).

(4) Despite the repeal of the Quarantine Act by this Act, subsection 66B(7) of that Act continues to apply in relation to the requirements imposed on the other party by the directions referred to in subitem (3).