The amendments of Schedule 1A made by the amending regulations apply in relation to a technique on or after the commencement day, regardless of whether the technique was applied before, on or after that day.
Note: The effect of this regulation includes that an organism that was a GMO immediately before the commencement day may cease to be a GMO from when the amendments commence, even if:
(a) a technique applied to modify the organism before the commencement day was gene technology at the time it was applied; or
(b) the organism inherited a trait, from another organism, that occurred in that other organism because of a technique that was gene technology at the time it was applied.