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

18   Directions in relation to goods ordered into quarantine

(1) This item applies in relation to goods that:

(a) had been ordered into quarantine under the Quarantine Act; and

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

Direction that goods be detained where they are

(2) If:

(a) a direction had been given to a person under paragraph 48(1)(a) of the Quarantine Act that the goods be detained on board a vessel or installation, or at premises, in a specified manner and for a specified period; and

(b) the direction was in force immediately before the commencement day;

then the direction has effect, on and after the commencement day, as if it were a direction given to the person under subsection 124(1) of the Biosecurity Act to secure the goods on board the vessel or installation, or at the premises, in the specified manner and for the specified period.

Direction that goods be exported

(3) If:

(a) a direction had been given to a person under paragraph 48(1)(c) of the Quarantine Act that the goods be exported from Australia; and

(b) the direction was in force immediately before the commencement day;

then the direction has effect, on and after the commencement day, as if it were a direction given to the person under paragraph 135(2)(b) of the Biosecurity Act.