Biosecurity Act 2014

Subsection (2) applies to an intergovernmental agreement entered into under the repealed Act, section 21L (the existing agreement), that is in force immediately before the commencement.

From the commencement—

the existing agreement is taken to be an intergovernmental agreement entered into under section 390 (the continuing agreement); and

the continuing agreement applies to the parties to the existing agreement with any necessary changes to give effect to the existing agreement; and

a reference in the existing agreement to an assurance certificate is taken to be a reference to an acceptable biosecurity certificate for the continuing agreement.

Subsection (4) applies if an assurance certificate that is in effect immediately before the commencement makes a statement about the existence of a fact in relation to a plant, or other thing that may spread a pest, within the meaning of the repealed Act.

From the commencement—

the assurance certificate is taken to be an acceptable biosecurity certificate about the plant or other thing; and

an authorised officer may accept and, without further checking, rely and act on the assurance certificate in relation to the fact as if it were an acceptable biosecurity certificate.