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AGRICULTURAL AND VETERINARY CHEMICALS CODE REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1996 NO.83

STATUTORY RULES 1996 No. 83

Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Primary Industries and Energy

Agricultural And Veterinary Chemicals Code Act 1994

Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Regulations (Amendment)

Section 6 of the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Act 1994 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations for the purpose of the Act.

The Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Bill was passed in March 1994 as part of the package of legislation to implement the National Registration Scheme for agricultural and veterinary chemicals. The Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Regulations provide necessary support to the Act.

The proposed amendments make two minor changes to certain of the fees charged by the National Registration Authority for Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (NRA) for the annual reregistration of products. These are

(a) to treat more than one sheep branding fluid (from a single marketer) as one product, with a concessional annual charge of $100, and

(b) to treat products (from a single marketer) which vary only in respect of dyes and /or fragrances as one product.

Both these changes are being made so as to make the fee payable by marketers smaller and hence fairer, ie commensurate with the work actually done by the NRA.

Details of the regulations are as set out below.

Regulation 1 provides that the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Regulations are amended by the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Regulations (Amendment). The regulations will commence on gazettal.

Regulation 2 provides that an expression used in the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Regulations (Amendment) has the same meaning as in the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code. (The Code is a schedule to the Act).

Regulation 3 withdraws subregulations 4, 4A, 4B and 5 of regulation 70. However, as these four subregulations are still required, they are all reproduced as part of regulation 4 below.

Regulation 4 provides for the first time that, for annual product reregistration,

(a) more than one sheep branding fluid (from a single marketer) shall be treated as one product, with a concessional annual charge of $100, and

(b) products (from a single marketer) which vary only in respect of dyes or fragrances shall be treated as one product.