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AGRICULTURAL AND VETERINARY CHEMICALS CODE REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1995 NO. 137

STATUTORY RULES 1995 No. 137

Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Primary Industries and Energy

Agricultural And Veterinary Chemicals Code Act 1994

Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Regulations (Amendment)

Section 6 of the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Act 1994 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations for the purpose of the Act.

The Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Bill was passed in March 1994 as part of the package of legislation to implement the National Registration Scheme for agricultural and veterinary chemicals. The Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Regulations provide necessary support to the Act. The purpose of the amendments is to

•       double the application fees charged for assessing agricultural and veterinary chemicals in connection with their registration by the National Registration Authority for Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (NRA), (including the application fees charged for brand-new technical grade active constituents, but excluding approved active constituents from a different manufacturing plant)

•       increase the application fee for approved active constituents from a different manufacturing plant from $1500 to $2 500

•       introduce three new categories into the NRA's scale of charges for annual reregistration of agricultural and veterinary chemical products, namely

(a)       nil value of wholesale sales per annum, with an annual fee of $200 per product.

(b)       $1 to $9 999 value of wholesale sales per annum, with an annual fee of $300 per product

(c)       $1 to $9 999 value of wholesale sales per annum and registered in no more than two States/Territories, with an annual fee of $200 per product

Details of the regulations are as follows:

Regulation 1 provides for a commencement date of 1 July 1995 for regulations 4 and 5, which concern application fees. The remainder of the regulations will commence on gazettal

Regulation 2 provides for the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Regulations to be amended by the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code (Amendment) Regulations

Regulation 3 repeals the existing scale of fees for reregistration of agricultural and veterinary chemicals with the NRA and replaces it with a new one which incorporates the changes described above

Regulation 4 prescribes the NRA's new applications fees for assessing technical grade active constituents, and the new application fees for assessing agricultural and veterinary chemical products (except for those products those assessment is non-standard, in which case the fee charged is one of the modular fees, or the total of two or more modular fees)

Regulation 5 prescribes the NRA's new scale of modular application fees.