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BIOSECURITY ACT 2015 - SECT 585 Disclosure for the purposes of foreign governments etc. managing risks

BIOSECURITY ACT 2015 - SECT 585

Disclosure for the purposes of foreign governments etc. managing risks

  (1)   An entrusted person may disclose relevant information to a foreign government, an authority or agency of a foreign government or an international body of an intergovernmental character, for the purposes of:

  (a)   the government, authority, agency or body managing a risk covered by subsection   (2); or

  (b)   giving effect to Australia's international obligations.

  (2)   The risk covered by this subsection is:

  (a)   the likelihood of a disease or pest:

  (i)   entering a foreign country or a part of a foreign country; or

  (ii)   emerging, establishing itself or spreading in a foreign country or a part of a foreign country; and

  (b)   the potential for any of the following:

  (i)   the disease or pest to cause harm to human, animal or plant health in that foreign country;

  (ii)   the disease or pest to cause harm to the environment in that foreign country;

  (iii)   economic consequences in that foreign country associated with the entry, emergence, establishment or spread of the disease or pest as mentioned in paragraph   (a).