Contents
1............ Short title............................................................................................. 1
2............ Commencement................................................................................... 1
3............ Schedules............................................................................................ 2
Schedule 1—Amendments 3
Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 3
A Bill for an Act to amend the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013, and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title
This Act is the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Amendment (Vaccine Indemnity) Act 2023.
2 Commencement
(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
| Commencement information |
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
| Provisions | Commencement | Date/Details |
| 1. The whole of this Act | The day after this Act receives the Royal Assent. | |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.
(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
3 Schedules
Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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—Amendments
Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013
1 After section 61
Insert:
61A Vaccine indemnities
(1) The Finance Minister must not grant an indemnity on behalf of the Commonwealth to a manufacturer of a vaccine in relation to the use of the vaccine.
(2) A corporate Commonwealth entity must not grant an indemnity to a manufacturer of a vaccine in relation to the use of the vaccine.
(3) This section applies despite sections 60 and 61, and any rules made for the purposes of those sections.
(4) In this section:
manufacturer, in relation to a vaccine, includes a person who is or is to be a sponsor of the vaccine within the meaning of the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989.
vaccine means a vaccine for the purpose of immunising persons.
2 Application of amendments
Section 61A of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013, as inserted by this Schedule, applies in relation to the granting of indemnities on or after the day this item commences.