Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Amendment Regulations 2004 (No. 4)1

Statutory Rules 2004 No. 3882

I, PHILIP MICHAEL JEFFERY, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Act 1989.

Dated 16 December 2004

P. M. JEFFERY

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

CHRISTOPHER PYNE
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Ageing

1 Name of Regulations

  These Regulations are the Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Amendment Regulations 2004 (No. 4).

2 Commencement

  These Regulations commence on the date of their notification in the Gazette.

3 Amendment of Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Regulations 1990

  Schedule 1 amends the Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Regulations 1990.

Schedule 1 Amendments

(regulation 3)

[1] After subregulation 13 (2)

insert

 (2A) For the purposes of paragraph 110 (1) (ea) of the Act, the following fees are prescribed in respect of an application for a self-assessed assessment certificate for a new industrial chemical:

 (a) if the application is in respect of a polymer of low concern — $2 266;

 (b) if the application is in respect of a non-hazardous chemical that is a synthetic polymer with a number average molecular weight that is equal to or greater than 1 000 (other than a non-hazardous chemical to which paragraph (a) applies) — $6 730;

 (c)  if the application is in respect of a non-hazardous chemical (other than a non‑hazardous chemical to which paragraph (a) or (b) applies) — $8 035.

[2] Schedule 2, before item 1

insert

[3] Schedule 2, before item 5A

insert

[4] Schedule 2, after item 5A

insert

1. These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 1990 No. 231, as amended by 1990 No. 440; 1991 No. 165; 1992 Nos. 29, 245 and 282; 1993 No. 35; 1994 Nos. 21, 320, 368 and 454; 1995 Nos. 81 and 358; 1997 Nos. 181, 193, 203 and 419; 1999 No. 224; 2002 Nos. 9 and 58; 2003 Nos. 121, 150 and 192; 2004 Nos. 158, 239 and 246.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 23 December 2004.