Queensland Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 2005 - SECT 489

489 Authority to conduct scientific research and studies

(1) This section applies to a person who, immediately before the commencement day, was authorised to conduct scientific research and studies under the Health Act 1937, section 154M.

(2) The chief executive is taken to have granted an application by the person under chapter 6, part 4, division 2, to be given health information held by the department for the research to which the authority applied.

(3) The application is taken to have been granted for a period ending 2 years after the commencement day.

(4) Subsection (3)—

(a) applies subject to any earlier ending, under this Act, of the period for which the application is taken to have been granted; and

(b) does not affect the making, or dealing with, of another application by the person under chapter 6, part 4.

(5) In this section—

"commencement day" means the day section 284 commences.