Biosecurity Act 2025

In this Act, biosecurity impact means an adverse effect on the environment, the community or the economy that arises, or has the potential to arise from, any biosecurity matter or carrier, or a dealing with a biosecurity matter or carrier, being an adverse effect that is the result of, or related to—

the introduction, presence, spread or increase of an animal disease or a plant disease into or within South Australia, or any part of South

Australia; or

the introduction, presence, spread or increase of a pest into or within

South Australia, or any part of South Australia; or

stock food or any fertiliser; or

any animal or plant, or the product of any animal or plant, that is contaminated, or exposed to any contaminant; or

a risk to public safety, or a public nuisance, caused by managed bees;

or

any thing or circumstance that is prescribed to have biosecurity impact.

For the purposes of subsection (1)(d), an animal or plant, or the product of an animal or plant, is contaminated if it contains a contaminant that makes, or is likely to make, the animal, plant or product—

unfit or unsuitable for use in any commercial or other activity in which it would normally be used; or

a risk to human health, human activity or the environment; or

unfit to export or other trade for which it would normally be used.

However, a thing or circumstance is not a biosecurity impact for the purposes of this Act if it is excluded from the ambit of this section by the regulations.