Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Amendment Regulations 2006 (No. 1)1

Select Legislative Instrument 2006 No. 78

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 13 April 2006

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 2006 (No. 1).

2 Commencement

  These Regulations commence as follows:

 (a) on the day after they are registered  — regulations 1 to 3 and Schedule 1;

 (b) on 1 July 2006 — Schedule 2.

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

  Schedules 1 and 2 amend the Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Regulations 1990.

Schedule 1 Amendments commencing on the day after they are registered

(regulation 3)

[1] After regulation 6A

insert

6B Prescribed information for application for controlled use permit

  For paragraph 22C (2) (e) of the Act, in relation to an application for a permit by an applicant who intends to export a chemical, the following information about the chemical must be supplied in the application:

 (a) the matters set out in items 1 and 13 of Part B of the Schedule to the Act;

 (b) if the chemical is to be introduced in an amount that is greater than 10 tonnes in a period of 12 months, information about the matters set out in Part C of the Schedule to the Act that is available to the applicant;

 (c) if the chemical is a polymer, the matters relating to the polymer’s molecular weight set out in items 2, 3 and 4 of Part D of the Schedule to the Act;

 (d) whether the chemical is, or contains, a hazardous chemical;

 (e) whether the chemical has been notified and assessed in a foreign country;

 (f) the concentration amount of the chemical in the product containing the chemical;

 (g) the safety procedures to be observed when handling and storing the chemical;

 (h) the procedures to be adopted to control or limit the release of the chemical, or waste products resulting from the chemical, into the environment or workplace;

 (i) the details of the country to which the chemical is to be exported;

 (j) the Material Safety Data Sheet in relation to the chemical or the product containing the chemical;

 (k) the label to be attached to the packaging of the chemical or the product containing the chemical.

[2] Schedule 2, table, after item 5B

insert

Schedule 2 Amendments commencing on 1 July 2006

(regulation 3)

[1] Regulation 13

[2] Schedule 2

substitute

Schedule 2 Fees

(regulation 13)

Note

1. All legislative instruments and compilations are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments kept under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003. See www.frli.gov.au.