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

Schedule 2   Application, saving and transitional provisions

Part 1   General provisions

5   Transitional rules

(1) The Health Minister may, by legislative instrument, make rules prescribing matters:

(a) required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed by the rules; or

(b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

(2) Without limiting subitem (1), the rules may prescribe matters of a transitional nature (including prescribing any saving or application provisions) relating to:

(a) the amendments or repeals made by this Act; or

(b) the enactment of the Australian Centre for Disease Control Act 2025.

(3) Without limiting subitem (2), rules made for the purposes of that subitem before the end of the period of 12 months starting at the transition time may modify the operation of the provisions of this Act or the Australian Centre for Disease Control Act 2025 or any other Act or instrument.

(4) To avoid doubt, the rules may not do the following:

(a) create an offence or civil penalty;

(b) provide powers of:

(i) arrest or detention; or

(ii) entry, search or seizure;

(c) impose a tax;

(d) set an amount to be appropriated from the Consolidated Revenue Fund;

(e) directly amend the text of this Act or the Australian Centre for Disease Control Act 2025.

(5) This Schedule (other than subitem (4)) does not limit the rules that may be made for the purposes of subitem (1).