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Human Assisted Reproductive Technology Act 2004

Enforcement and miscellaneous provisions - Transitional provisions

83: Provisions to be treated as guidelines in interim period

You could also call this:

"Rules that are used like guidelines for a little while after a new law starts"

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When a new law is passed, there is a time called the interim period. This interim period starts the day after the law is officially agreed to and lasts for three years. You need to know what happens during this time.

The Minister can make a rule that says some parts of a document should be treated as guidelines. The Minister can also change or cancel this rule. You will know about these rules because they are published in the Gazette.

These rules start 28 days after they are published in the Gazette. They last until the end of the interim period, unless they are cancelled sooner. The ethics committee must follow these rules.

The rules and any changes to them are published in the Gazette. This publication tells you which parts of a document are treated as guidelines, but it does not have to include the actual guidelines. The ethics committee has to follow the current rules.

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Part 4Enforcement and miscellaneous provisions
Transitional provisions

83Provisions to be treated as guidelines in interim period

  1. In this section, interim period means the period that commences on the day after the date on which this Act receives the Royal assent and ends on the third anniversary of that day.

  2. During the interim period, the Minister may—

  3. issue a requirement requiring the ethics committee to treat specified provisions of any document as guidelines issued by the advisory committee for the purposes of this Act; and
    1. amend or revoke a requirement of that kind.

      1. A requirement, or the amendment or revocation of a requirement, comes into force on the 28th day after the day on which it is published in the Gazette.

      2. A requirement and any amendment of a requirement, unless sooner revoked, expires at the end of the interim period.

      3. The ethics committee must give effect to the current form of every requirement.

      4. Every requirement and any amendment or revocation of the requirement must be published in the Gazette, and the publication of a requirement or an amendment of a requirement must identify the provisions that are to be treated as guidelines but need not set them out.