Specific biosecurity requirements
23 Specific biosecurity requirements
In this Act:
specific biosecurity requirement includes any requirement under this Act, or another territory law, that requires a person to do 1 or more of the following to manage a biosecurity risk or potential biosecurity risk:
to take a stated action or do a stated thing;
to refrain from engaging in a stated action or from doing a stated thing;
to adopt, comply with or implement a standard, rule, code, guideline, program or other specification;
to comply with a regulation, declaration, undertaking, condition, order, determination, direction, permit, notice or other instrument made or issued under this Act or any other territory law.
The general biosecurity duty is not a specific biosecurity requirement.
A specific biosecurity requirement is part of the general biosecurity duty.
A person fails to comply with the general biosecurity duty in relation to biosecurity matter, a carrier or a dealing if the person fails to comply with an applicable specific biosecurity requirement in relation to the biosecurity matter, carrier or dealing.
To remove any doubt, compliance with each applicable specific biosecurity requirement in relation to a dealing, biosecurity matter or carrier may not, of itself, be compliance with the general biosecurity duty in relation to that dealing, biosecurity matter or carrier.
This provision refers to the regulations (a regulation
). Made under this Act:
- Biosecurity (National Livestock Identification System) Regulation 2025 · under s 234
- Biosecurity Regulation 2025 · under s 234
This Act’s bill:Explanatory statementSecond reading speech
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