Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

QUARANTINE ACT 1908 - SECT 54

             (1)  A quarantine officer or an authorized person may examine an imported animal or plant that has been released from quarantine.

             (2)  If, after the examination of an animal under subsection (1), a quarantine officer is of the opinion that the animal is suffering from a disease or is a source of infection of a disease, the officer may order the animal into quarantine.

             (3)  Where, after the examination of a plant under subsection (1), a quarantine officer is of the opinion that there is danger of the plant spreading a disease, the officer may order the plant into quarantine.

             (4)  In this section, animal has the same meaning as in section 52.