Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

QUARANTINE ACT 1908 - SECT 4

             (1)  In this Act, quarantine includes, but is not limited to, measures:

                     (a)  for, or in relation to:

                              (i)  the examination, exclusion, detention, observation, segregation, isolation, protection, treatment and regulation of vessels, installations, human beings, animals, plants or other goods or things; or

                             (ii)  the seizure and destruction of animals, plants, or other goods or things; or

                            (iii)  the destruction of premises comprising buildings or other structures when treatment of these premises is not practicable; and

                     (b)  having as their object the prevention or control of the introduction, establishment or spread of diseases or pests that will or could cause significant damage to human beings, animals, plants, other aspects of the environment or economic activities.

             (2)  Without otherwise limiting the nature of any quarantine measure, or measure incidental to quarantine:

                     (a)  by way of a direction that a person may be authorised to give; or

                     (b)  by way of an action that a person may be authorised to take;

either as a result of a Ministerial authorisation under subsection 3(1) or as a result of an authorisation by the executive head of a national response agency under subsection 3(2), that direction or action must be no more than is reasonably appropriate and adapted:

                     (c)  to the control and eradication of the epidemic; or

                     (d)  to the removal of the danger of the epidemic;

in respect of which the authorisation was given.