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

7   Government certificates issued before commencement time to take effect after that 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 states that it takes effect on a specified date that is the date the commencement time occurs or a later date.

(2) The government certificate has effect after the commencement time as if it had been issued under paragraph 67(1)(a) of the new Export Control Act in relation to the relevant goods.

Note: The government certificate takes effect on the date stated in the certificate (see paragraph 72(1)(b) of the new Export Control Act).

(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) 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).