Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1AA) This section does not apply to an overseas aircraft to which subsection 32B(1) applies.
(1) Subject to subsection (2), where a quarantine officer (human quarantine) is satisfied that an overseas vessel at, or about to arrive at, a port in relation to which the vessel has not been granted pratique is free from infection, the quarantine officer (human quarantine) shall grant the vessel pratique having effect in that port and such other ports as he or she considers appropriate.
(1A) Subject to subsection (2), where:
(a) an overseas vessel is:
(i) in accordance with the permission of the Minister given under section 20AA; or
(ii) by reason of stress of weather or other reasonable cause;
at, or about to arrive at, a place in Australia, the Cocos Islands or Christmas Island other than a port declared to be a first port of entry, a first Cocos Islands port of entry or a first Christmas Island port of entry, as the case may be; and
(b) a quarantine officer (human quarantine) is satisfied that the vessel is free from infection;
the quarantine officer (human quarantine) shall grant the vessel pratique having effect in that place and at such ports as he or she considers appropriate.
(2) A quarantine officer (human quarantine) may refuse to grant a vessel pratique if the quarantine officer (human quarantine) has reasonable grounds to believe that section 75A applies to the vessel.
(3) Pratique shall be granted to a vessel by giving the master of the vessel a certificate of pratique in a form approved by the Director of Human Quarantine or by giving the master particulars of the pratique by radio message or otherwise, but, where pratique is granted otherwise than by the giving of a certificate of pratique, a quarantine officer (human quarantine) shall give the master a certificate of pratique in a form approved by the Director of Human Quarantine as soon as practicable after the vessel arrives at the first port or place in which the pratique has effect.
(4) Pratique may be pratique having effect in:
(a) all places in Australia, or in the Cocos Islands, or in Christmas Island; or
(b) all ports in Australia, or in the Cocos Islands, or in Christmas Island, other than landing places; or
(c) all landing places in Australia, or in the Cocos Islands, or in Christmas Island; or
(d) all places in a part of Australia, a part of the Cocos Islands, or a part of Christmas Island, that is specified by the quarantine officer (human quarantine) granting the pratique; or
(e) all ports in a part of Australia, a part of the Cocos Islands, or a part of Christmas Island, that is specified by the quarantine officer (human quarantine) granting the pratique, other than landing places; or
(f) all landing places in a part of Australia, a part of the Cocos Islands, or a part of Christmas Island, that is specified by the quarantine officer (human quarantine) granting the pratique; or
(g) a particular port, or particular ports, in Australia, in the Cocos Islands, or in Christmas Island, that are specified by the quarantine officer (human quarantine) granting the pratique; or
(h) all Australian installations, or Australian installations specified by the quarantine officer (human quarantine) granting the pratique.
(5) Pratique may be pratique having effect for a period specified by the quarantine officer (human quarantine) granting it.
(6) Pratique may relate to all measures of quarantine or to measures of quarantine specified by the quarantine officer (human quarantine) granting the pratique.