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

2   Transitional - transfer of documents

(1) This item applies to any records or documents that:

(a) relate to a function or power of the Director-General of the CDC under:

(i) the Australian Centre for Disease Control Act 2025; or

(ii) the Biosecurity Act 2015; or

(iii) the National Health Security Act 2007; or

(iv) the National Occupational Respiratory Disease Registry Act 2023; and

(b) immediately before the transition time, were in the possession of:

(i) the Health Secretary; or

(ii) the Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer; or

(iii) an APS employee in the Health Department; or

(iv) a delegate of the Health Secretary or the Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer.

(2) The records and documents are to be transferred to the Director-General of the CDC after the transition time.

Note: Any records and documents transferred are Commonwealth records for the purposes of the Archives Act 1983.

(3) The transitional rules may provide that:

(a) subitem (2) does not apply to specified records or documents; or

(b) subitem (2) does not apply to records or documents that relate to a specified function or power of the Director-General of the CDC.

(4) Subitem (3) does not limit subsection 33(3A) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.