Biosecurity (2022 Infringement Notices) Determination 2021

I, Andrew Edgar Francis Metcalfe AO, Director of Biosecurity, make the following determination.

Dated 20 December 2021

Andrew Edgar Francis Metcalfe AO

Director of Biosecurity

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Period in force

5 Definitions

6 Category 1 goods

7 Category 2 goods

8 Repeal

1  Name

  This instrument is the Biosecurity (2022 Infringement Notices) Determination 2021.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 524A(1) of the Biosecurity Act 2015.

Note: This instrument lists classes of goods (called category 1 goods and category 2 goods) in relation to which the Director of Biosecurity is reasonably satisfied there is a high level of biosecurity risk. An infringement notice for an alleged contravention of certain provisions of the Biosecurity Act 2015 may state 12 penalty units if the contravention relates to category 1 goods and 6 penalty units if the contravention relates to category 2 goods (see subsection 524(4) of the Biosecurity Act 2015 and regulations made for the purpose of that subsection).

4  Period in force

  This instrument is in force for 12 months beginning on 1 January 2022.

5  Definitions

  In this instrument:

meat:

 (a) means a part of an animal (other than a fish, cetacean, mollusc, crustacean, cnidarian, echinoderm or a tunicate) that is intended or able to be used as food by a human being or an animal (whether or not it is cooked, dried or otherwise processed); and

 (b) includes blood, bone‑meal, meat meal, tallow and fat.

meat product means a product:

 (a) that contains meat; or

 (b) of which meat is an ingredient.

retorted means heated in a hermetically‑sealed container to a minimum core temperature of 100°C, obtaining an F0 value of at least 2.8.

6  Category 1 goods

  The following goods are listed as category 1 goods:

 (a) live plants;

 (b) whole unprocessed seeds;

 (c) meat and meat products, except meat or meat products that have been retorted;

 (d) prawns that are raw or partially raw (that is, not sufficiently cooked to coagulate all of the protein in the prawn meat);

 (e) live animals, and the remains of animals that have died in transit before arriving in Australian territory or on arrival in Australian territory;

 (f) eggs of a bird or reptile that are intended for hatching;

 (g) veterinary vaccines.

7  Category 2 goods

  The following goods are listed as category 2 goods:

 (a) fresh fruit;

 (b) fresh vegetables;

 (c) fresh fungi;

 (d) fresh leaves;

 (e) fresh herbs.

8  Repeal

  This instrument is repealed at the start of 1 January 2023.