(1) If, on the
commencement of this Act, corresponding provisions to this Act have not been
enacted by another jurisdiction, the responsible Minister for that
jurisdiction for the purposes of this Act is the Minister of that jurisdiction
with portfolio responsibility for health.
(2) Any thing done by
a Minister of the Commonwealth or of a State before the commencement of this
Act that would have been validly done if this Act, and the corresponding
provisions of other jurisdictions, had been in force at the time is taken to
have been validly done.