Biosecurity Act 2025

In this Act, an emergency includes:

an act or event in respect of which an emergency order has been made;

the occurrence, suspected occurrence or imminent occurrence of a biosecurity emergency.

In this Act, an act or function is performed, or a power is exercised, by a person in an emergency (or in the case of an emergency) if the person, at the time of performing the act or function or exercising the power (as the case may be), reasonably believes or suspects that—

the performance of the act or function, or the exercise of the power, is necessary or authorised under an emergency order; or

a biosecurity emergency is occurring, has occurred or is imminent and the performance of the act or function, or the exercise of the power, is necessary or reasonably required to assess, prevent, control or manage the biosecurity emergency.