Biosecurity Act, 2013 (No. 3 of 2013).

This Act provides for biosecurity measures in relation with importation and exportation of animals and plants and related materials conducted by persons present in the Solomon Islands. The Act also provides with respect to administration of biosecurity control and deals with biosecurity emergencies.
The Act shall apply to any "regulated article": (a) any animal or animal product; (b) any plant or plant product; (c) any living organism, whether modified or not; (d) soil, sand gravel and aggregate; (e) any genetic material; (f) human remains; (g) any host material; (h) a regulated pest or disease; (i) any clothing, machinery or other article that contains or has adhering to it anything mentioned in paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d); j) garbage; (k) any other article, substance, goods or thing declared by the Minister by order under subsection (2) to be a regulated article for the purposes of this Act. The Minister (not defined) may, on the advice of the Director of Biosecurity, declare, by Order in the Gazette, any article, substance, goods or thing to be a regulated article for the purposes of this Act. The Minister shall responsible for the overall administration of this Act. The Act establishes the positions of: (a) the Director of Biosecurity; (b) the Deputy Director of Biosecurity; (c) biosecurity officers, and define duties and powers of such public officers.
The Act concerns, among other things; biosecurity border control; biosecurity import and export procedures (including quarantine and issue of sanitary and phytosanitary certificates; biosecurity internal control. The Act defines offences and penalties.
The Director must maintain a biosecurity register and other records needed for the administration of this Act and the performance of the biosecurity functions of the Government. As for biosecurity emergencies, they may be declared in respect of the whole of or that part of Solomon Island by the Minister on the advice of the Director.