Victorian Current Acts

GENE TECHNOLOGY ACT 2001 - SECT 72B

    (1)     The Minister may, by Order published in the Government Gazette (an emergency dealing determination ), specify dealings with a GMO for the purposes of this Part.

    (2)     The Minister may make an emergency dealing determination only if the Minister administering section 72B of the Commonwealth Act has made, or is proposing to make, a corresponding Commonwealth emergency dealing determination.

Note

Section 72B of the Commonwealth Act includes a subsection (3) dealing with threats of a kind mentioned in subsection (2) of that section.

    (4)     The dealings in respect of which the Minister may make an emergency dealing determination may be—

        (a)     all dealings with a GMO or with a specified class of GMOs; or

        (b)     a specified class of dealings with a GMO or with a specified class of GMOs; or

        (c)     one or more specified dealings with a GMO or with a specified class of GMOs.

Note

This section differs from section 72B of the Commonwealth Act.

S. 72C inserted by No. 43/2007 s. 13.