Medicines and Poisons Act 2019
sec.256Existing applications for new interests
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sec.256 Existing applications for new interests
This section applies if— before the commencement, a person applied for an approval, licence or permit (the interest ) under the Health Act or the Pest Management Act ; and immediately before the commencement, the person’s application had not been decided. The person’s application must be decided as if it were— an application for a substance authority that is equivalent to the interest; and made under this Act on the commencement. For subsection (2), if a fee has been paid or waived for the interest, a fee payable under this Act for an application for the substance authority is waived. (sec.256-ssec.1) This section applies if— before the commencement, a person applied for an approval, licence or permit (the interest ) under the Health Act or the Pest Management Act ; and immediately before the commencement, the person’s application had not been decided. (sec.256-ssec.2) The person’s application must be decided as if it were— an application for a substance authority that is equivalent to the interest; and made under this Act on the commencement. (sec.256-ssec.3) For subsection (2), if a fee has been paid or waived for the interest, a fee payable under this Act for an application for the substance authority is waived.
- (a) before the commencement, a person applied for an approval, licence or permit (the interest ) under the Health Act or the Pest Management Act ; and
- (b) immediately before the commencement, the person’s application had not been decided.
- (a) an application for a substance authority that is equivalent to the interest; and
- (b) made under this Act on the commencement.