PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELLBEING ACT 2008 - SECT 165AQ Tabling in Parliament of documents relating to a pandemic order

PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELLBEING ACT 2008 - SECT 165AQ

    (1)     The Minister must ensure that within 4 sitting days after a pandemic order or a variation, extension or revocation of a pandemic order comes into force—

        (a)     a copy of the pandemic order or the instrument of variation, extension or revocation, as the case requires, is laid before each House of the Parliament; and

        (b)     a copy of each document that is required to be published under section 165AP(2) in relation to the making, variation, extension or revocation of the order is laid before each House of the Parliament.

    (2)     A failure to comply with the requirements of this section does not affect the validity of the pandemic order or the variation, extension or revocation, as the case requires.

Note

However, the Pandemic Declaration Accountability and Oversight Committee may report on a failure to comply (see  section 165AU(1)(b)), which is a precondition for disallowance under section 165AU.

S. 165AR inserted by No. 53/2021 s. 12.