Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) In order to
prevent any disease from being introduced into the State or into any part of
the State every person entering the State in a prescribed manner must lodge a
declaration in the prescribed form with an inspector at the nearest point of
entry.
(2) A declaration
referred to in subsection (1) must —
(a)
specify any potential carrier which the person is bringing into the State;
(b)
contain the information required by the form; and
(c) be
signed in the manner specified in the form.
(3) An inspector may
destroy any potential carrier brought into the State and the expenses incurred
in disinfecting, destroying or otherwise disposing of or treating any
potential carrier or in disinfecting or treating any container, vessel or
conveyance in which the potential carrier was carried must be met by the owner
or person in charge of the potential carrier, as the Director General directs.
(4) Where the owner or
person in charge of the potential carrier, as the case may be, fails to meet
the expenses of or incidental to any action taken by an inspector under
subsection (3), the whole or any part of those expenses are recoverable
from the owner or person in charge of the potential carrier in any court of
competent jurisdiction.
(5) For the purposes
of this section —
nearest point of entry in relation to a person
entering the State —
(a) on a
vessel, means the first port of entry for the vessel or where the vessel is an
aircraft, the first airport at which the aircraft lands; and
(b) in
any conveyance or on foot, means the nearest prescribed inspection point;
vessel means any ship, boat, aircraft or other
description of vessel used in navigation by sea or air.
(6) A person who fails
to lodge a declaration as required by subsection (1) commits an offence.
[Section 23D inserted by No. 40 of 1993
s. 15.]