Biosecurity Act 2019

Unless otherwise specified in this Act, an authorised officer may only perform the functions of an authorised officer for one or more of the following purposes:to assess, prevent, eliminate, minimise, control or manage any biosecurity risk or biosecurity impact, or suspected biosecurity risk or biosecurity impact; to investigate, monitor and enforce compliance with this Act; to administer or execute this Act; to obtain information or records necessary for the administration or enforcement of this Act; to assist a biosecurity auditor to perform the biosecurity auditor's functions in connection with a biosecurity audit; if the authorised officer is a biosecurity auditor, to perform a biosecurity audit.

An authorised officer who is also a biosecurity auditor may perform the functions of an authorised officer while he or she is also performing the functions of a biosecurity auditor.