Biosecurity Act 1993

Importation of risk goods - Craft risk management standards

24H: Amendment, revocation, suspension, and reinstatement

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"Changing biosecurity rules: how to amend, cancel, pause, or restart them"

If you want to change a craft risk management standard, you need to follow some rules. These rules are like the ones in sections 24F and 24G. You have to do this when you want to amend or revoke a standard.

If a chief technical officer thinks a standard needs to be changed urgently, they do not have to follow all the rules. They can make a change without waiting if it is a small change. The officer can recommend suspending a standard if they think it is not working properly.

The Director-General can then suspend the standard after getting the recommendation. If the officer thinks the standard will work again, they can recommend reinstating it. The Director-General can then reinstate the standard.

When a standard is amended, revoked, suspended, or reinstated, it is considered secondary legislation, which has its own publication rules, as explained in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019. The change starts according to section 24G(2), even if it has not been published yet.

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Part 3Importation of risk goods
Craft risk management standards

24HAmendment, revocation, suspension, and reinstatement

  1. Sections 24F and 24G apply, to the extent to which they are relevant and reading in any necessary modifications, to—

  2. proposed amendments to a craft risk management standard:
    1. a proposal to revoke a craft risk management standard.
      1. However, if a chief technical officer considers that the standard needs to be amended or revoked urgently or that a proposed amendment is minor, the officer is not required to comply with section 24F(3).

      2. Subsections (4) and (5) apply if a chief technical officer believes on reasonable grounds that circumstances or knowledge have changed in such a way as to cause the requirements in a craft risk management standard to no longer enable the purposes of this Part to be achieved.

      3. The officer may recommend to the Director-General the suspension of the standard.

      4. After receiving the officer's recommendation, the Director-General may suspend the standard.

      5. Subsections (7) and (8) apply if a chief technical officer believes on reasonable grounds that circumstances or knowledge have changed in such a way as to cause the requirements in a suspended craft risk management standard to again enable the purposes of this Part to be achieved.

      6. The officer may recommend to the Director-General the reinstatement of the standard.

      7. After receiving the officer's recommendation, the Director-General may reinstate the standard.

      8. An amendment, revocation, suspension, or reinstatement of a craft risk management standard—

      9. is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements); but
        1. commences in accordance with section 24G(2), even if it is not yet published.
          Notes
          • Section 24H: inserted, on , by section 20 of the Biosecurity Law Reform Act 2012 (2012 No 73).
          • Section 24H(9) heading: inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
          • Section 24H(9): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).