Biosecurity (Entry Requirements) Amendment (Additional Screening) Determination 2018

I, Greg Hunt, Minister for Health, make the following determination.

Dated 13 August 2018

Greg Hunt

Minister for Health

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Biosecurity (Entry Requirements) Determination 2016

1  Name

  This instrument is the Biosecurity (Entry Requirements) Amendment (Additional Screening) Determination 2018.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under subsection 44(2) of the Biosecurity Act 2015.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Biosecurity (Entry Requirements) Determination 2016

1  After Part 2

Insert:

Part 3—Screening

6  Individuals who may be, or may have been, infected with listed human disease

 (1) This section applies to an individual who is entering Australian territory on a conveyance or vessel at a landing place or port in accordance with Division 2 or 3 of Part 4 of Chapter 4 of the Act if:

 (a) the individual has been identified in the report given by the operator of the conveyance or vessel under subsection 193(1) of the Act, or in information given to a biosecurity officer under subsection 194(1) of the Act, as having signs or symptoms of an illness or infection; or

 (b) the individual has been identified by a biosecurity officer or a human biosecurity officer at the landing place or port as having signs or symptoms of an illness or infection; or

 (c) the National Focal Point has been notified under the International Health Regulations that the individual has, or has been exposed to, a listed human disease; or

 (d) before travelling to Australian territory, the individual had been in a country where individuals are known to be, or to have been, infected with a listed human disease.

 (2) A biosecurity officer or a human biosecurity officer may require the individual to be screened (including by equipment or by being required to answer questions or provide information in writing) for the purpose of establishing whether the individual may be, or may have been, infected with a listed human disease.

Note: An individual who fails to comply with a requirement that applies to the individual under subsection (2) may contravene a civil penalty provision (see section 46 of the Act).

2  Clause 1 of Schedule 1 (at the end of the cell at table item 2, column headed “Countries and areas”)

Add “and Corrientes Province”.