Public Health Act 1997

The Director, while an emergency declaration is in force, may amend or revoke, under this subsection, a guideline.

The Director may only amend or revoke under subsection (1) a guideline if he or she is of the opinion that it is necessary to do so for the purposes of managing a threat to public health, or a likely threat to public health, to which the emergency declaration relates.

The Director may revoke under this subsection an amendment, to a guideline, made under subsection (1).

The Director may only revoke under subsection (3), an amendment to a guideline made under subsection (1), while an emergency declaration is in force, if the revocation occurs before the end of the period of 30 days after the emergency declaration ceases to be in force.

The Director may, if he or she is of the opinion that a guideline that was revoked under subsection (1) should continue in force, declare the revocation to be of no effect on and from a specified day.

The Director may only issue a declaration under subsection (5) in relation to a revocation of a guideline that occurred while an emergency declaration is in force, if the declaration under subsection (5) is issued before the end of the period of 30 days after the emergency declaration ceases to be in force.

If a declaration is issued under subsection (5) in relation to a revocation of a guideline, the revocation ceases to be in effect on the day specified in the declaration as the day on which the revocation is to cease to be of effect.

Section 184(4) and section 196(2) do not, until the end of the period of 30 days after an emergency declaration ceases to be in force, apply in relation to an amendment of any guideline, or a revocation of any guideline, made under subsection (1) while the emergency declaration was in force.

If section 196(2) applies in relation to an amendment or revocation made under subsection (1) of this section while an emergency declaration is in force, section 196(2) applies in relation to the amendment or revocation as if the reference in that section to the day on which the amendment or revocation takes effect were a reference to the first day after the end of the period of 30 days after the emergency declaration ceases to be in force.

Section 184(4) and section 196(2) do not, despite subsection (8), apply in relation to – an amendment made under subsection (1) that is revoked under subsection (3); or a revocation under subsection (3); or a revocation under subsection (1) to which a declaration under subsection (5) relates; or a declaration under subsection (5).

Nothing in this section is to be taken to prevent the amendment or revocation of a guideline under section 184.