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

8   Application for government certificate not decided before commencement time

(1) This item applies in relation to an application that had been made under an old Export Control Order for the issue of a certificate (a government certificate ) in relation to goods (the relevant goods ) to be exported from Australia if no decision on the application had been made before the commencement time.

(2) The application is taken after the commencement time to be an application made under subsection 65(1) of the new Export Control Act for a government certificate in relation to the relevant goods.

(3) Subsections 65(2) to (4) of the new Export Control Act do not apply in relation to the application.

(4) The person to whom the application was made is taken to be an issuing body for a government certificate in relation to the relevant goods for the purposes of Part 3 of Chapter 2 of the new Export Control Act.