Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL HEALTH SECURITY ACT 2007 - SECT 60AH

  (1)   This section applies if:

  (a)   an event occurs in relation to an entity and a particular sample of a security - sensitive biological agent; and

  (b)   the event occurs in a State or Territory; and

  (c)   the event is:

  (i)   one described in subparagraph   60AF(1)(b)(i); or

  (ii)   one described in subparagraph   60AF(1)(b)(ii) or (iii) and prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this subparagraph.

  (2)   The entity must give a member of the police force of the State or Territory a report of the event that:

  (a)   is in a form approved by the Secretary; and

  (b)   includes the information required by the approved form.

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

  (3)   The entity must give the report within the period prescribed by the regulations.

  (4)   Regulations prescribing a period for the purposes of subsection   (3) 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.