Person complying with direction or request must not damage or destroy goods
631 Person complying with direction or request must not damage or destroy goods
This section applies in relation to a person if:
the Agriculture Minister, the Director of Biosecurity, a biosecurity officer or a biosecurity enforcement officer directs or requests the person to do a thing (including taking a biosecurity measure) in relation to goods for the purposes of this Act; and
the person is not:
a biosecurity officer; or
a biosecurity enforcement officer; or
a chief human biosecurity officer; or
a human biosecurity officer; or
a person in charge of the goods.
The person contravenes this subsection if:
the person, in complying with the direction or request, does a thing, or omits to do a thing, that causes the destruction of or damage to the goods; and
either:
the person did not act in good faith in doing the thing, or omitting to do the thing, that caused the destruction of or damage to the goods; or
the destruction or damage was not a reasonable or necessary result of complying with the direction or request in relation to the goods.
Civil penalty provision
A person is liable to a civil penalty if the person contravenes subsection (2).
Civil penalty: 120 penalty units.
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