Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated ActsIf:
(a) an animal has been brought into a port or other place in Australia, the Cocos Islands or Christmas Island but the animal was not intended, or is not permitted, to be imported into Australia, the Cocos Islands or Christmas Island, as the case may be; and
(b) the master of a vessel or installation fails to comply with:
(i) a direction given by a Director of Quarantine with respect to the animal; or
(ii) any of the prescribed conditions relating to the giving of reports about the animal, or relating to the control or confinement of, or the giving of access to, the animal;
a quarantine officer may destroy the animal.