BIOSECURITY ACT 2015 - SECT 287 Approval of ballast water management plans for vessels

BIOSECURITY ACT 2015 - SECT 287

  (1)   The determination under section   308A may prescribe a scheme for the Director of Biosecurity or a survey authority to take any of the following actions in relation to a vessel:

  (a)   approve a ballast water management plan for the vessel;

  (b)   approve an amendment of the vessel's ballast water management plan;

  (c)   cancel the approval of the vessel's ballast water management plan.

Note:   A decision to refuse to approve a ballast water management plan, a decision to refuse to approve an amendment of a plan or a decision to cancel a plan is a reviewable decision (see Part   1 of Chapter   11).

  (2)   An action referred to in subsection   (1) may be taken in relation to a foreign vessel only on request by the vessel's Administration.