Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL HEALTH SECURITY ACT 2007 - SECT 60AD

  (1)   This section applies if an entity gives the Secretary a temporary handling report for a particular sample of a security - sensitive biological agent.

  (2)   The entity must give the Secretary a report (a temporary handling disposal report ), for the sample, that complies with subsection   (3).

Note:   Failure to give a report is an offence: see section   60AE.

  (3)   The temporary handling disposal report:

  (a)   must be in a form approved by the Secretary; and

  (b)   must state that the entity has disposed of the sample; and

  (c)   must include the information required by the approved form; and

  (d)   must be given to the Secretary:

  (i)   within 2 business days after the disposal, or after the end of the temporary handling period for the sample, whichever happens first; or

  (ii)   if a longer period is specified in a written notice given to the entity by the Secretary--within that longer period.