Reporting biosecurity incidents
431 Reporting biosecurity incidents
This section applies if:
an approved arrangement requires a report to be made to the relevant Director if an act, omission or event (a reportable biosecurity incident) specified in the arrangement occurs; or
a condition of an approved arrangement requires a report to be made to the relevant Director if an act, omission or event (also a reportable biosecurity incident) specified in the condition occurs.
The report must include the information, and be made in the way, determined under subsection (3).
The relevant Director may, by legislative instrument, determine either or both of the following:
information that must be included in a report of a reportable biosecurity incident required by an approved arrangement or a condition of an approved arrangement;
the way the report must be made.
If:
a person reports a reportable biosecurity incident to the relevant Director as required by an approved arrangement or a condition of an approved arrangement; and
the report does not comply with any requirements that are in force under subsection (3) when the report is made;
the report is taken, for the purposes of the approved arrangement, or the condition of the approved arrangement, not to have been made.
A biosecurity industry participant may commit an offence or contravene a civil penalty provision if the biosecurity industry participant fails to comply with any requirements specified in an approved arrangement covering the biosecurity industry participant or a condition of such an arrangement (see section 428).
This section does not limit the operation of Division 8 of Part 1 of Chapter 3 in relation to a biosecurity industry participant.
Division 8 of Part 1 of Chapter 3 deals with reporting biosecurity incidents in relation to goods that are subject to biosecurity control.
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