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

Schedule 3   Application, saving and transitional provisions

Part 4   Registered establishments

17   Registrations in force immediately before commencement time

(1) This item applies to an establishment that was registered under an old Export Control Order if the registration of the establishment was in force immediately before the commencement time.

Note: For the purposes of the old Export Control Act and an old Export Control Order, establishment includes premises (see the definition of establishment in section 3 of the old Export Control Act).

(2) For the purposes of subitem (1), the registration of an establishment is taken to have been in force under an old Export Control Order immediately before the commencement time even if the registration of the establishment was suspended, in full or in part, at that time.

Registration continues in force

(3) The registration of the establishment continues in force after the commencement time:

(a) as if the establishment had been registered under Chapter 4 of the new Export Control Act; and

(b) subject to any conditions stated in:

(i) the certificate of registration of the establishment; or

(ii) any later notice given to the occupier of the establishment by the Secretary before the commencement time.

Note 1: The registration is also subject to the conditions provided by the new Export Control Act and the conditions prescribed by rules made for the purposes of paragraph 113(1)(b) of that Act (see subsection 113(1) of that Act).

Note 2: The registration of the establishment may be varied under item 23 of this Schedule or varied, suspended or revoked under Chapter 4 of the new Export Control Act.

Expiry of registration

(4) If there was no expiry date for the registration of the establishment under the old Export Control Order, the registration of the establishment continues in force unless:

(a) it is revoked under Part 6 of Chapter 4 of the new Export Control Act; or

(b) it is taken to have been revoked under section 147 of that Act.

(5) If there was an expiry date for the registration of the establishment under the old Export Control Order, the registration of the establishment continues in force until that expiry date unless:

(a) it is renewed under Part 3 of Chapter 4 of the new Export Control Act on or before that date; or

(b) it is revoked under Part 6 of Chapter 4 of that Act, or is taken to have been revoked under section 147 of that Act, on or before that date.