QUARANTINE (ANIMALS) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1985 NO. 364 

QUARANTINE (ANIMALS) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1985 NO. 364 
- TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1. Period of detention in quarantine  
2. Repeal of Schedule 2  


1985 No. 364 QUARANTINE (ANIMALS) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
- REG 1
Period of detention in quarantine


  1. Regulation 35 of the Quarantine (Animals) Regulations is amended-
  (a) by omitting sub-regulation (1) and substituting the following
sub-regulation:
    "(1) Subject to sub-regulation (2), an animal which is ordered
into quarantine and conveyed to a quarantine station shall be detained in that
quarantine station for such period as the Director, or a person authorised by
the Director, determines.";
  (b) by omitting from sub-regulation (2) all the words from and including
"number" to and including "elapsed" and substituting "expiration of the period
referred to in sub-regulation (1)"; and
  (c) by omitting sub-regulations (4) and (5) and substituting the following
sub-regulations:
    "(4) The Director or a person authorised by the Director may
direct that an animal shall remain in a quarantine station for a longer period
than that referred to in sub-regulation (1) if-
    (a) in the case of a dog or cat imported by air-
      (i) the cage or box in which the animal was transported
to Australia was not so constructed as to prevent the animal from coming into
physical contact with any other animal, the seal on the cage or box was broken
at the time of importation or the cage or box was unloaded from the aircraft
in which the animal was transported at any intermediate place at which the
aircraft landed during the flight; or
      (ii) the Director or the person authorised by the Director,
as the case may be, is of the opinion that the dog or cat cannot be released
at the end of the period referred to in sub-regulation (1) without danger of
introducing some disease; or
    (b) in any other case-the Director or the person authorised by
the Director, as the case may be, is of the opinion that the animal cannot be
released at the end of the period referred to in sub-regulation (1) without
danger of introducing some disease.
    "(5) Where an animal that has been ordered into quarantine is
conveyed to a place approved under sub-section 46A (1) of the Act, a reference
in this regulation to a quarantine station shall be read as a reference to
that approved place.".


1985 No. 364 QUARANTINE (ANIMALS) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
- REG 2
Repeal of Schedule 2


  2. Schedule 2 to the Quarantine (Animals) Regulations is repealed.


- NOTES


1985 No. 364*1* QUARANTINE (ANIMALS) REGULATIONS*2* (AMENDMENT)



*1*Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 20 December 1985.
*2*Statutory Rules 1935 No. 71 as amended to date. For previous amendments see
Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1985 No. 313 and see also Statutory Rules 1985 No.
313.