National Emergency Declaration (Consequential Amendments) Act 2020 (129 of 2020)

Schedule 1   Amendments consequential on the enactment of the National Emergency Declaration Act 2020

Radiocommunications Act 1992

46   At the end of Division 1 of Part 4.4

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221A Effect of a national emergency declaration

If a national emergency declaration is in force:

(a) the declaration is taken to be a Proclamation under section 219 for the purposes of this Act; and

(b) the declaration is taken to have been published in the Gazette on the day on which the declaration commenced; and

(c) the period of emergency is the period specified in the declaration for the purposes of subparagraph 11(4)(b)(iii) of the National Emergency Declaration Act 2020 or that period as extended or further extended under section 12 of that Act; and

(d) subsection 219(3) does not apply to the declaration; and

(e) the period of emergency is terminated on the day the declaration ceases to be in force.