Biosecurity Act 2014

The chief executive may make guidelines to provide guidance to persons about—

matters relating to the administration of this Act; and

ways of discharging the general biosecurity obligation; and

complying with other requirements imposed under this Act.

Without limiting subsection (1), a guideline may be about the following matters—

the operation of provisions of this Act about monitoring and enforcement;

ways of complying with requirements imposed under this Act in relation to restricted matter, including, for example, the following—

steps an occupier of land may take to manage invasive plants and their impact on the land and adjoining land;

ways to avoid moving fire ants in or on soil;

ways to humanely kill, and appropriately dispose of, noxious fish;

on-farm procedures for keeping and caring for horses;

raising designated animals on land for the domestic needs of the occupants of the land.

The chief executive may make a guideline by adopting another entity’s guideline with or without changes.

Before making a guideline, the chief executive must take reasonable steps to allow entities the chief executive considers may have an interest in the proposed guideline to give the chief executive written submissions about it.

A failure to allow the entities to give the chief executive written submissions about the proposed guideline does not affect the validity of it.