PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELLBEING ACT 2008 - SECT 165CS Minister must establish and maintain a Pandemic Order Register

PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELLBEING ACT 2008 - SECT 165CS

    (1)     The Minister must establish and maintain a register (the "Pandemic Order Register") that includes the following instruments and incorporated matter—

        (a)     all pandemic orders as made;

        (b)     all pandemic orders as in force from time to time;

        (c)     all instruments that vary, extend or revoke a pandemic order;

        (d)     if one or more pandemic orders make provision for or in relation to a matter by applying, adopting or incorporating any matter contained in a document (not being another pandemic order, an Act, a Commonwealth Act, a Code, a statutory rule or a legislative instrument made under a Commonwealth Act), all such documents.

    (2)     The Pandemic Order Register must be made available to the public free of charge on an Internet site maintained by the Department     .

    (3)     An electronic version of a pandemic order or a document included in the Pandemic Order Register, or a printed copy of such an order or a document, is, on the mere production of that electronic version or printed copy, admissible as evidence thereof before all courts and persons acting judicially within Victoria.

    (4)     In this section—

"Code "has the same meaning as it has in section 32(1) of the Interpretation of Legislation Act 1984 ;

"legislative instrument" has the same meaning as it has in the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 of the Commonwealth.

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