Australian Immunisation Register Amendment (Japanese Encephalitis Virus) Rules 2022

I, Mark Butler, Minister for Health and Aged Care, make the following rules.

Dated 15 December 2022

Mark Butler

Minister for Health and Aged Care

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Australian Immunisation Register Rule 2015

1  Name

  This instrument is the Australian Immunisation Register Amendment (Japanese Encephalitis Virus) Rules 2022.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Australian Immunisation Register Act 2015.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Australian Immunisation Register Rule 2015

1  Subparagraph 9(a)(iii)

Omit “vaccine; and”, substitute “vaccine;”.

2  At the end of paragraph 9(a)

Add:

 (iv) a relevant vaccination for the Japanese encephalitis virus; and

3  Subparagraph 9(b)(iii)

Omit “2021; and”, substitute “2021; or”.

4  At the end of paragraph 9(b)

Add:

 (iv) for a relevant vaccination for the Japanese encephalitis virus—on or after the commencement of the Australian Immunisation Register Amendment (Japanese Encephalitis Virus) Rules 2022; and