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INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS (NOTIFICATION AND ASSESSMENT) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)1992 NO. 282

Statutory Rules 1992 No. 282

(Issued by the Authority of the Minister for industrial Relations)

Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment Act 1989

Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Regulations (Amendment)

Section 111 of the Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment Act 1989 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations for the purposes of the Act.

Section 55 of the Act deals with applications for the assessment of priority existing chemicals. Regulation 14 of the Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Regulations (the Regulations) enables the Director of the National Industrial Chemicals Notification and Assessment Scheme (NICNAS) to reduce the amount of the fee payable for each application.

The regulations reduce the administrative and regulatory inconvenience to industry by removing the requirement that the fees for two or more applications under section 55 of the Act be paid at the time at which the applications are lodged. The regulations overcome this previous requirement because the fee payable for an application is not payable at the time the application is made but only after the Director has advised an applicant in writing of the amount of the reduction.

Subregulation 14(3A) requires the Director of NICNAS to tell each of the applicants whether the fee payable is to be reduced and the amount of the reduction.

Subregulation 16(1), which is subject to subregulation 16(2), requires a fee prescribed under regulation 13 to be paid at the time at which the application, statement, nomination or notification is lodged.

Subregulation 16(2) provides that, in the case of two or more applications under section 55 of the Act, the fee for each of the applications is to be paid no later than 14 days after the Director has, in accordance with subregulation 14(3A), told the applicant in writing of the amount of the fee required.