Queensland Numbered Acts

MEDICINES AND POISONS ACT 2019 - SECT 58

58 Chief executive may make emergency order

(1) The chief executive may make an order (an
"emergency order" ) authorising a person to carry out a regulated activity with a regulated substance in relation to any of the following events—

(a) a biosecurity event for which a biosecurity emergency order applies under the Biosecurity Act 2014 , section 113 ;

(b) a disaster situation under the Disaster Management Act 2003 ;

(c) a declared public health emergency under the Public Health Act 2005 ;

(d) an emergency under the Public Safety Preservation Act 1986 ;

(e) another event, at a State or local level, that poses a health risk, including an event that has the potential to cause human disease through exposure to infection.

Example for paragraph (e)—

an outbreak of a communicable disease

(2) An emergency order must state the following things—

(a) the event to which the order applies;

(b) a description of the area to which the order applies;

(c) the day the order starts;

(d) the day, no later than 3 months after the order starts, the order ends;

(e) the regulated activity with the regulated substance that may be carried out;

(f) the class of persons who may carry out the regulated activity;

(g) any conditions applying to the regulated activity, including, for example, the circumstances in which a person may carry out the activity.