Export Control (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act 2020 (13 of 2020)

Schedule 3   Application, saving and transitional provisions

Part 2   Exporting goods

Division 2   Government certificates

6   Government certificates in force immediately before commencement time

(1) This item applies in relation to a certificate (a government certificate ) that had been issued under an old Export Control Order in relation to goods (the relevant goods ) to be exported from Australia if the certificate was in force immediately before the commencement time.

(2) The government certificate continues in force after the commencement time:

(a) as if it had been issued under paragraph 67(1)(a) of the new Export Control Act in relation to the relevant goods; and

(b) subject to any conditions stated on the certificate.

(3) The person that issued the government certificate is taken to be the issuing body for the certificate for the purposes of Part 3 of Chapter 2 of the new Export Control Act.

(4) Subsection 72(1) of the new Export Control Act does not apply in relation to the government certificate.

(5) The Secretary may vary the government certificate to replace a reference to an old Export Control Law, or a provision of an old Export Control Law, with a reference to the new Export Control Act or rules made under that Act or a provision of the new Export Control Act or rules made under that Act (as the case requires).