Queensland Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 2005 - SECT 323

323 Extending or further extending declared public health emergency

(1) A regulation may extend, or from time to time further extend, the period of a declared public health emergency.

(2) A regulation made under this section commences on the day it is made whether or not it is notified on that day.

(3) A regulation extending the period of a declared public health emergency expires 14 days after the public health emergency is declared unless it is sooner repealed or it expires under section 324 (3) .

(4) A regulation further extending the period of a declared public health emergency—

(a) must state the period, of not more than 7 days, by which the declared public health emergency is further extended; and

(b) expires at the end of the stated period unless the regulation is sooner repealed or it expires under section 324 (3) .

(5) Subsection (2) applies despite the Statutory Instruments Act 1992 , section 32 .