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

Schedule 4   Application, saving and transitional provisions commencing later

Part 2   Managing biosecurity risks: goods

Division 1   Goods brought into Australian territory or otherwise subject to quarantine

7   Notice to do specified thing in relation to goods

(1) This item applies if:

(a) a notice had been given to a person under subsection 16AF(1) of the Quarantine Act requiring the person to do a specified thing in relation to goods that had been ordered into quarantine; and

(b) the requirement in the notice had not been complied with before the commencement day; and

(c) the goods had not been released from quarantine before the commencement day.

(2) Despite the repeal of the Quarantine Act by this Act:

(a) the person must comply with the requirement in the notice; and

(b) subsection 16AF(3) of that Act continues to apply in relation to the requirement.

(3) If:

(a) complying with the requirement in the notice was a condition of the goods being released from quarantine; and

(b) the person complies with the requirement on or after the commencement day; and

(c) apart from this Act, the goods would have been released from quarantine at a particular time (the release time ) wholly or partly because of that compliance; and

(d) immediately before that time the goods were subject to biosecurity control because, under subitem 3(2), they were taken to become subject to biosecurity control at the beginning of the commencement day;

the goods are taken for the purposes of the Biosecurity Act to be released from biosecurity control by notification under paragraph 162(1)(a) of that Act at the release time.