Commonwealth Numbered Acts

WILDLIFE PROTECTION (REGULATION OF EXPORTS AND IMPORTS) ACT 1982 No. 149 of 1982 - SECT 8

8. (1) For the purposes of this Act, where a specimen is brought into
Australia from a country (other than a prescribed Territory)-

   (a)  for the purpose of transhipment to another country; or

   (b)  as part of an aircraft's stores or ship's stores,
that specimen-

   (c)  shall be taken not to have been imported into Australia; and

   (d)  when it leaves Australia, shall be taken not to be exported from
        Australia.

(2) For the purposes of this Act, where a specimen is brought into an external
Territory (other than a prescribed Territory)-

   (a)  for the purpose of transhipment to another country; or

   (b)  as part of an aircraft's stores or ship's stores,
that specimen-

   (c)  shall be taken not to have been imported into that Territory; and

   (d)  when it leaves that Territory, shall be taken not to be exported from
        that Territory.

(3) For the purposes of this Act, where a prescribed organization sends a
specimen out of, or brings a specimen into, Australia or an external Territory
for the purpose of using the specimen in a diagnostic test that is to be
carried out in an endeavour to identify a disease of humans, animals or
plants, that specimen shall be taken not to have been exported or imported, as
the case may be.

(4) For the purposes of this Act, where-

   (a)  a prescribed person or a prescribed organization is satisfied that, in
        order to meet an emergency involving danger to the life or health of a
        human or an animal, it is necessary or desirable that a specimen that
        could be used in treating that person or animal should be sent out of,
        or brought into, Australia or an external Territory; and

   (b)  that specimen is sent out of, or brought into, Australia or that
        Territory, as the case requires, to meet that emergency,
that specimen shall be taken not to have been exported or imported, as the
case may be.

(5) For the purposes of this Act, where, in accordance with the Quarantine 
Act 1908 or a law of an external Territory relating to quarantine, a person
exercising powers under that Act or law brings into Australia or an external
Territory a specimen that is subject to quarantine, that specimen shall be
taken not to have been imported unless and until it is released from
quarantine.
(6) In this section, ''aircraft's stores'' and ''ship's stores'' have the same
meanings respectively as they have in Part VII of the Customs Act 
1901 .