Commonwealth Serum Laboratories

No. 42 of 1970

An Act to amend the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories Act 1961–1966 in relation to the Importation and Sale of certain Vaccines.

[Assented to 24 June 1970]

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories Act 1970.

(2.) The Commonwealth Serum Laboratories Act 1961–1966, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories Act 1961–1970.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Functions of Commission.

3. Section 19 of the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories Act 1961–1966 is amended—

(a) by inserting after paragraph (a) the following paragraph:—

“ (aa) to import into Australia and sell to the Commonwealth any vaccine referred to in section nine b of the National Health Act 1953–1970;”;

(b) by omitting from sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (b) the words “the last preceding paragraph” and inserting in their stead the words “ paragraph (a) of this section “; and

(c) by omitting from paragraph (c) the word “two” and inserting in its stead the word “three”.