Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL HEALTH SECURITY ACT 2007 - SECT 60AF

  (1)   This section applies to an entity if:

  (a)   the entity gives the Secretary a temporary handling report for a particular sample of a security - sensitive biological agent; and

  (b)   any of the following events occurs in relation to the sample before the end of the temporary handling period for the sample:

  (i)   the sample is lost or stolen;

Note:   Accidental or deliberate releases of security - sensitive biological agents that could cause harm to human health or the environment may need to be reported under State or Territory legislation.

  (ii)   a person accesses the sample, and the access is unauthorised under the regulations;

  (iii)   any other event prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this subparagraph.

  (2)   The entity must give a report about the event to the Secretary. The report must be given within the prescribed period.

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

  (3)   Regulations for the purposes of subparagraph   (1)(b)(ii) may prescribe the circumstances in which access to a sample of a specified security - sensitive biological agent, or to a sample of a specified class of security - sensitive biological agents, is unauthorised.

  (4)   Regulations prescribing a period for the purposes of subsection   (2) may:

  (a)   prescribe different periods in relation to different events; and

  (b)   prescribe a period in relation to an event that ends before or after the event occurs.

  (5)   A report given by an entity under subsection   (2):

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

  (b)   must include the information required by the approved form.

  (6)   Subsection   (2) does not apply in the circumstances (if any) prescribed by the regulations.