Biosecurity Act 2014

This section applies if an auditor conducts a compliance, nonconformance or check audit of an approved operator’s operation of an approved biosecurity accreditation system.

The auditor must give a report about the audit to the following persons within 14 days after completing the audit, unless the auditor has a reasonable excuse—

the approved operator;

the chief executive.

Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.

The report must include all of the following information—

the auditor’s name;

the days the audit started and ended, and the time spent conducting the audit;

the address of, or other information sufficient to identify, the place at which the audit was conducted;

details of the operations audited;

whether, in the auditor’s opinion, the operations comply or do not comply with the approval conditions or the scheme;

the reasons why the auditor considers the operations comply or do not comply with the approval conditions or the scheme;

if the operations do not comply with the approval conditions or the scheme—details of action taken, or proposed to be taken, to remedy the noncompliance;

whether, in the auditor’s opinion—

an auditor needs to conduct a nonconformance audit of the operations in relation to any noncompliance identified in the audit; or

the frequency of compliance audits for the operations should be changed, and if so, the reasons why the auditor considers the frequency should be changed;

other information prescribed by regulation.