Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL HEALTH SECURITY ACT 2007 - SECT 39

  (1)   This Division applies to an entity if:

  (a)   the entity handles one or more security - sensitive biological agents at one or more facilities; and

  (b)   the entity is not an exempt entity.

Note:   This Division does not apply to the handling of a security - sensitive biological agent by an entity that gives the Secretary a temporary handling report: see Division   5AA.

  (2)   If a security - sensitive biological agent is a toxin in relation to which a reportable quantity is specified in the List of Security - sensitive Biological Agents, then, for the purposes of this Division, an entity does not handle that toxin at a facility unless the entity handles at that facility at least the reportable quantity of that toxin.