Biosecurity Act 2019

A relevant officer may give an individual biosecurity direction that prohibits, regulates or controls the doing of any thing by or on behalf of the person to whom the biosecurity direction is given, if the relevant officer reasonably believes that the direction is necessary for any of the following purposes:to prevent the person from contravening or continuing to contravene this Act; to assess, prevent, eliminate, minimise, control or manage any biosecurity risk or biosecurity impact; to enforce, administer or execute this Act, the regulations or any instrument made under this Act.

A relevant officer may also give an individual biosecurity direction that requires a person to do a thing if the officer reasonably believes that the direction is necessary for one or more of the following purposes:to ensure that the person discharges a biosecurity duty imposed on the person by or under this Act; to ensure that the person remedies a contravention, suspected contravention or likely contravention by the person of this Act; to prevent, eliminate, minimise, control or manage a biosecurity risk posed by a dealing of the person, or suspected dealing of the person, with biosecurity matter, a carrier or a potential carrier; to enforce, administer or execute this Act, the regulations or any instrument made under this Act.

An individual biosecurity direction may be subject to such conditions as the relevant officer considers reasonable in the circumstances.