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Modernising Queensland's biosecurity legislation

Closing date for feedback: 7 November 2009

You are invited to provide your comments on the current Queensland Government biosecurity legislation so that we can develop a new biosecurity act.

The government's election commitments include introducing new legislation for biosecurity as part of Queensland's biosecurity strategy. The Queensland Biosecurity Strategy 2009­-14 sets out an ambitious program of work for the next five years as we build a world-class biosecurity system.

View Queensland's biosecurity strategy.

As the Queensland Biosecurity Strategy 2009-14 was developed, stakeholders showed their support for a strong legislative framework based on a single, cohesive biosecurity Act. The new Act will modernise Queensland´s biosecurity legislative framework and underpin proposed outcomes of the Queensland Biosecurity Strategy 2009-14.

View the consultation paper Modernising Queensland's biosecurity legislation (PDF, 162KB).

We would like to hear your views and comments on the current Queensland legislation dealing with biosecurity and your suggestions for the new approach using a single, cohesive biosecurity Act.

Your comments and feedback will help develop the exposure draft, which will then be released for public consultation in 2010.

You can respond as an individual or as an organisation on the legislation issues that are most relevant to your interests.

To help the project team your response should include:

• your name and the capacity in which you are responding (e.g. as an individual or as an association)
• the specific legislation or regulatory issue that you are responding to.

You may like to organise your response in terms of:

• strengths and limitations of the current legislation you are responding to
• suggested areas for improvement
• opportunities for co-regulation by government and industry
  opportunities to reduce red tape.

For more information about this consultation

Web site:	www.dpi.qld.gov.au
Email address:	sandra.golding@deedi@qld.gov.au
Postal address:	Queensland Biosecurity Legislation Project Team GPO Box 46 Brisbane 4001 Qld
Telephone:	07 3239 3057
Fax:	07 3239 3510

 

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