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

Schedule 2   Application, saving and transitional provisions

Part 2   Provisions relating to the amendment of the Biosecurity Act 2015

6   Things done by, or in relation to, the Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer

(1) If, before the transition time, a thing was done by, or in relation to, the Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer, in the capacity of the Director of Human Biosecurity, for the purposes of:

(a) the old Biosecurity Act; or

(b) a legislative instrument made under the old Biosecurity Act;

then the thing has effect, at and after the transition time, as if it had been done by, or in relation to, the Health Secretary in the capacity of the Director of Human Biosecurity.

(2) Subitem (1) does not apply in relation to a determination made under subsection 42(1) of the old Biosecurity Act.

(3) The transitional rules may provide that subitem (1) does not apply in relation to a specified thing done by, or in relation to, the Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer, in the capacity of the Director of Human Biosecurity.