Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Regulations 1999
Statutory Rules 1999 No. 326
I, WILLIAM PATRICK DEANE, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Act 1994.
Dated 15 December 1999.
WILLIAM DEANE
Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command,
JUDITH TROETH
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture,
Fisheries and Forestry
for the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Regulations 1999
Statutory Rules 1999 No. 3261
made under the
Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Act 1994

Contents
	Page
	1	Name of Regulations	2
	2	Commencement	2
	3	Definition	2
	4	Prescribed functions (Act s 18)	2

1	Name of Regulations
		These Regulations are the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Regulations 1999.
2	Commencement
		These Regulations commence on gazettal. 
3	Definition
		In these Regulations:
Act means the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Act 1994.
4	Prescribed functions (Act s 18)
		For section 18 of the Act, the following functions are prescribed in relation to the Director of Public Prosecutions of the Commonwealth (the Director):
	(a)	to begin prosecutions on indictment for indictable offences against the Agvet Code, or the Agvet Regulations, of a State;
	(b)	to carry on prosecutions of the kind mentioned in paragraph (a), whether or not begun by the Director;
	(c)	to begin proceedings for the commitment of persons for trial for indictable offences against the Agvet Code, or the Agvet Regulations, of a State;
	(d)	to begin proceedings for the summary conviction of persons for offences against the Agvet Code, or the Agvet Regulations, of a State;
	(e)	to carry on proceedings of a kind mentioned in paragraph (c) or (d), whether or not begun by the Director;
	(f)	to do anything incidental or conducive to the performance of any of the functions mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (e).
Note   State includes the Northern Territory — see s 4 of the Act.

Note
1.	Made by the Governor-General on 15 December 1999, and notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 22 December 1999.