Australian Centre for Disease Control (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act 2025 (62 of 2025)

Schedule 2   Application, saving and transitional provisions

Part 4   Provisions relating to the amendment of the National Occupational Respiratory Disease Registry Act 2023

16   References to the Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer in instruments

(1) This item applies to an instrument if:

(a) the instrument was made under the old NORDR Act; and

(b) the instrument was in force immediately before the transition time; and

(c) the instrument contains a reference to the Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer.

(2) The instrument has effect, at and after the transition time, as if a reference in the instrument to the Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer were a reference to the Director-General of the CDC.

(3) The transitional rules may provide that subitem (2) does not apply in relation to a specified instrument or a specified reference.

(4) This item does not prevent the instrument from being amended or repealed after the commencement of this item.

(5) In this item:

instrument includes:

(a) a contract, deed, undertaking, arrangement or agreement; and

(b) a notice, authority, order or instruction; and

(c) an instrument made under the old NORDR Act or rules made under the old NORDR Act.