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PRIMARY INDUSTRIES AND ENERGY LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1997 No. 94, 1997 - SCHEDULE 2

Schedule 2-Amendment of the Export Control Act 1982 1 Subsection 23(1)
After "the Secretary", insert ", an authorised officer or a person who is
approved in writing by the Secretary for the purposes of the regulations". 2
Paragraph 23(2)(b)
Omit "the Secretary", substitute "a person empowered by the regulations to
issue a certificate". 3 Validation of orders and certificates
In spite of anything in section 23 of the Export Control Act 1982 as in force
immediately before the commencement of this item:

   (a)  any order purportedly made under section 25 of that Act in respect of
        a matter for which regulations may be made under section 23 of that
        Act as so in force is taken to have been validly made; and

   (b)  any certificate purportedly issued under such an order is taken to
        have been validly issued. 4 Subsection 24A(1)
Repeal the subsection, substitute:

(1) The regulations may prescribe specifications (the specifications) for the
transmission of information and documents from a person to another person for
the purposes of any provision of this Act or the regulations that requires the
information or documents to be given to that other person.

(1A) Without limiting subsection (1), the specifications may require:

   (a)  information and documents to be transmitted on specified data
        processing devices; or

   (b)  a person transmitting the information or documents to authenticate the
        transmission in a particular manner. 5 Subsections 24A(3) and (4)
Repeal the subsections, substitute:

(3) A person (including the Secretary) may transmit information or a document
to another person in accordance with the specifications for the purposes of
any provision of this Act or the regulations that requires the information or
document to be given to that other person. 6 Paragraph 24B(2)(a)
Omit "to the Secretary". 7 At the end of subsection 24B(2)
Add:
; and (c) that the information or document was transmitted to the person
specified in the print-out as the person to whom the information or document
was transmitted. 8 Subsection 24B(3)
Omit "office of the Secretary", substitute "office of the Department".