Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Amendment (Fees and Charges) Regulation 2015

 

Select Legislative Instrument No. 101, 2015

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), GovernorGeneral of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulation.

Dated 25 June 2015

Peter Cosgrove

GovernorGeneral

By His Excellency’s Command

Fiona Nash

Assistant Minister for Health

 

 

 

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Regulations 1990

1  Name

  This is the Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Amendment (Fees and Charges) Regulation 2015.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  The whole of this instrument

1 July 2015.

1 July 2015

Note:  This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Act 1989.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1Amendments

 

Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Regulations 1990

1  After regulation 14

Insert:

14A  Remission of registration charge

 (1) This regulation applies if:

 (a) a person has paid an amount as or on account of registration charge in relation to a registration year; and

 (b) the amount paid was greater than the amount of registration charge, if any, the person was liable to pay under section 80S of the Act in relation to the registration year; and

 (c) the person is not entitled to be repaid the amount paid, under subsection 80P(3) of the Act, in relation to the registration year.

 (2) For paragraph 80U(b) of the Act, the Director may, either on his or her own initiative or on application by a person, remit the amount that is the difference between the amount paid and the amount of registration charge, if any, the person was liable to pay under section 80S of the Act in relation to the registration year.

 (3) An application by a person for the remission of an amount of registration charge must be in writing and be made within 3 years after the end of the registration year to which the charge relates.

2  After regulation 15

Insert:

16  Waiver or remission of fees—application under section 24 of the Act to vary the requirements of section 23 of the Act

  For subsection 110(5) of the Act, the Director may, on behalf of the Commonwealth, wholly or partly waive or remit any fee that would otherwise be payable by a person under paragraph 110(1)(f) of the Act, if the Director considers that it is reasonable to do so in the circumstances.

3  After regulation 16A

Insert:

16B  Waiver or remission of late renewal penalty

  For subsection 110A(4) of the Act, the Director may, on behalf of the Commonwealth, wholly or partly waive or remit any late renewal penalty that would otherwise be payable under section 110A of the Act, if the Director considers that it is reasonable to do so in the circumstances.

4  Subregulation 17(1)

Repeal the subregulation, substitute:

 (1) Applications may be made to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal for review of decisions of the Director made in the exercise of the Director’s powers under any of the following:

 (a) subregulation 14A(2);

 (b) subregulation 15(1);

 (c) subregulation 15(4);

 (d) regulation 16;

 (e) regulation 16A;

 (f) regulation 16B.

5  Schedule 2 (table item 23)

Repeal the item, substitute:

23

Registration charge for the purposes of item 3 of the table in subsection 80T(2) of the Act

19 662

6  Schedule 2 (table item 24)

Repeal the item, substitute:

24

Late renewal penalty under subsection 110A(1) of the Act:

 

 

(a) for a late renewal application that is accompanied by the amount referred to in subparagraph 80KB(2)(c)(i) of the Act

105

 

(b) for a late renewal application that is accompanied by the amount referred to in subparagraph 80KB(2)(c)(ii) of the Act

200

 

(c) for a late renewal application that is accompanied by the amount referred to in subparagraph 80KB(2)(c)(iii) of the Act

1 980

 

(d) in any other case

105

7  Amendments of listed provisions—Schedule 2

The items of the table in Schedule 2 listed in the following table are amended as set out in the table.

 

Amendments relating to fees, charges and penalties

Item

Table item

Omit

Substitute

1

Item 1

800

850

2

Item 2

3 700

3 800

3

Item 3

750

800

4

Item 4

3 700

3 800

5

Item 5

4 200

4 400

6

Item 5

2 200

2 300

7

Item 7

4 200

4 400

8

Item 7

2 200

2 300

9

Item 8

4 200

4 400

10

Item 8

2 200

2 300

11

Item 9

18 000

18 600

12

Item 9

12 800

13 300

13

Item 9

6 000

6 200

14

Item 9

11 200

11 600

15

Item 9

13 200

13 700

16

Item 9

9 600

9 900

17

Item 9

3 700

3 800

18

Item 9

14 400

14 900

19

Item 9

10 300

10 600

20

Item 9

4 900

5 000

21

Item 9

10 900

11 300

22

Item 9

7 800

8 100

23

Item 9

3 600

3 700

24

Item 9

4 200

4 400

25

Item 9

2 700

2 800

26

Item 10

4 100

4 200

27

Item 10

10 400

10 800

28

Item 10

11 200

11 600

29

Item 11

2 800

2 900

30

Item 12

9 100

9 400

31

Item 13

2 500

2 600

32

Items 14 and 15

4 400

4 600

33

Item 16

5 500

5 700

34

Item 17

7 700

8 000

35

Item 18

10 300

10 700

36

Item 18

4 600

4 800

37

Item 25

800

850

38

Item 25

1 800

1 900

39

Item 26

1 800

1 900