Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00189:section:152ala:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00189
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 152ALA (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 1861770–1863650

ending on the expiry date of the first‑mentioned declaration.
 (8) If:
 (a) after holding a public inquiry under subsection (7) in relation to a declaration, the Commission allows the declaration to expire and then makes a new declaration under section 152AL; and
 (b) the report mentioned in paragraph (7)(b) was published during the 180‑day period ending when the new declaration was made;
the Commission is taken to have complied with paragraphs 152AL(3)(a), (b) and (c), or paragraphs 152AL(8A)(a), (b) and (c), as the case requires, in relation to the new declaration.
 (9) If:
 (a) after holding a public inquiry under subsection (7) in relation to a declaration, the Commission revokes or varies the declaration; and
 (b) the report mentioned in paragraph (7)(b) was published during the 180‑day period ending at the time of the revocation or variation;
the Commission is taken to have complied with paragraphs 152AL(3)(a), (b) and (c), or paragraphs 152AL(8A)(a), (b) and (c), as the case requires, in relation to the revocation or variation (as those paragraphs apply to the power of revocation and variation because of subsection 152AO(1)).

Extension notice is not a legislative instrument
 (10) A notice under subsection (4) is not, and is taken never to have been, a legislative instrument.
 (11) If:
 (a) a declaration was made under section 152AL before the commencement of this subsection; and
 (b) a notice relating to the declaration was published under subsection (4) of this section before the commencement of this subsection; and
 (c) the declaration ceased to be in force before the commencement of this subsection;
the notice is taken never to have been a legislative instrument.
 (12) For the purposes of paragraph (11)(c), assume that the Legislation Act 2003 had never been enacted.
 (13) Subsections (10) and (11) are enacted for the avoidance of doubt.