National Health Security Amendment (Background Checking) Act 2010

No. 15, 2010

An Act to amend the National Health Security Act 2007, and for related purposes

Contents

1 Short title

2 Commencement

3 Schedule(s)

Schedule 1—National Health Security Act 2007

National Health Security Amendment (Background Checking) Act 2010

No. 15, 2010

An Act to amend the National Health Security Act 2007, and for related purposes

[Assented to 11 March 2010]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1  Short title

  This Act may be cited as the National Health Security Amendment (Background Checking) Act 2010.

2  Commencement

  This Act commences on the day this Act receives the Royal Assent.

3  Schedule(s)

  Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—National Health Security Act 2007

1  After subsection 35(2)

Insert:

 (2A) An example of requirements relating to a matter described in paragraph (2)(b) is requirements for background checks of individuals to be conducted under the AusCheck scheme (within the meaning of the AusCheck Act 2007) for the purposes of determining whether they should be authorised to handle or dispose of security‑sensitive biological agents.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 19 November 2009

Senate on 22 February 2010]