Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Where a quarantine officer (human quarantine) is satisfied that an overseas installation is free from infection, the quarantine officer (human quarantine) shall grant the installation pratique having effect in a place at which the installation is, or is to be, attached or installed, as the case requires, and in such other places (including ports) as he or she considers appropriate.
(2) Pratique shall be granted to an overseas installation by giving the master of the installation 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 to an installation otherwise than by the giving of a certificate of pratique, the quarantine officer (human quarantine) shall give the master of the installation a certificate of pratique in a form approved by the Director of Human Quarantine as soon as practicable after the installation is:
(a) if the installation is an overseas resources installation--attached to the Australian seabed; or
(b) if the installation is an overseas sea installation--installed in an adjacent area or in a coastal area.
(3) Pratique granted under this section may be pratique having effect for a period specified by the quarantine officer (human quarantine) granting it.
(4) Pratique granted under this section may relate to all measures of quarantine or to measures of quarantine specified by the officer granting the pratique.