Dangerous Substances Act 2004

An emergency order may be addressed to—

a person or 2 or more people; or

a class of people or the general public.

A copy of an emergency order mentioned in subsection (1) (a) must be served on the person or people to whom it is addressed.

For how documents may be served, see the Legislation Act, pt 19.5.

As soon as practicable after an emergency order mentioned in subsection (1) (b) is made, the Minister must give public notice of the order in a way that, in the Minister’s opinion, will be most likely to bring the order to the attention of the people to be bound by it.

Public notice means notice on an ACT government website or in a daily newspaper circulating in the ACT (see Legislation Act, dict, pt 1).

The notice must set out the terms of the order and the people to be bound by it.

An emergency order, when it takes effect, is binding on the person or people to whom it is addressed.

An emergency order that is served on a person takes effect in relation to the person when it is served on the person.

An emergency order that is published under subsection (3) takes effect on the day after the day the order’s 1st published under that subsection.

An order ends at the end of 90 days after the day it takes effect unless it is sooner revoked.

Subsection (8) does not prevent a further order being made in the same terms as an order that has ended.