Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

QUARANTINE ACT 1908 - SECT 5C

             (1)  To avoid doubt:

                     (a)  subject to subsection (2), a person (the first person ) who has power, or is required, under this Act to do a thing has power to cause another person to do the thing on behalf of the first person or can comply with the requirement by causing another person to do the thing on behalf of the first person, as the case may be; and

                     (b)  a person who has power, or is required, under this Act to cause or direct a thing to be done has power to do the thing himself or herself or can comply with the requirement by doing the thing himself or herself, as the case may be.

             (2)  The reference in paragraph (1)(a) to a power or requirement to do a thing does not include a reference to a power or requirement to give a direction.