Biosecurity Act 2014

A person is a registrable biosecurity entity if the person—

keeps the threshold number or more of designated animals; or

holds the threshold amount or more of designated biosecurity matter.

For subsection (1), it does not matter whether the keeping or holding happens at 1 place or 2 or more places in the State.

However, for identifying a registrable biosecurity entity, 2 or more persons could, taken together, be a registrable biosecurity entity even though 1 of those persons, acting separately, could be a separate registrable biosecurity entity.Example for subsection (3)—Persons A and B, acting in partnership, keep pigs. A and B together are a registrable biosecurity entity for the keeping of those pigs. Additionally, person A, acting alone and outside of the partnership, keeps other pigs. Person A is a separate registrable biosecurity entity for the keeping of the other pigs.