Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Amendment (Cost Recovery and Other Measures) Regulations 2025 (Cth)

Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Amendment (Cost Recovery and Other Measures) Regulations 2025

I, the Honourable Sam Mostyn AC, Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 28 March 2025

Sam Mostyn AC

Governor‑General

By Her Excellency’s Command

Julie Collins

Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Amendment (Cost Recovery and Other Measures) Regulations 2025.

2Commencement

1. (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 October 2025.	1 October 2025

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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.

1. (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.

3Authority

This instrument is made under the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Act 1994.

4Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 1AmendmentsPart 1Main amendments

Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Regulations 1995

1

Subregulation 71A(1) (table item 2, column 1)

Omit “and later financial years”, substitute “, 1 July 2022, 1 July 2023 or 1 July 2024”.

2

Subregulation 71A(1) (at the end of the table)

Add:

3	Financial year beginning on 1 July 2025	$700	$3,850
4	Financial year beginning on 1 July 2026	$750	$3,950
5	Financial year beginning on 1 July 2027 and later financial years	$800	$4,000

3

Schedule 1 (at the end of the table)

Add:

7 An agricultural chemical product containing malathion as an active constituent

Part 2Application provisions

Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Regulations 1995

4

In the appropriate position in Part 10

Insert:

Division 10.9—Amendments made by the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Amendment (Cost Recovery and Other Measures) Regulations 2025

96Application of amendments

The amendments of subregulation 71A(1) made by Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Amendment (Cost Recovery and Other Measures) Regulations 2025apply in relation to an application that is made on or after the commencement of this regulation.