Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Amendment Instrument No. 2 (Multiple Applications) 2008 (Cth)

Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code

Amendment Instrument No. 2

(Multiple Applications) 2008

I, Eva Bennet-Jenkins, Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority, acting in accordance with my powers under subsection 32(1) of the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Administration) Act 1992, make this instrument for the purposes of subsection 164(1A) of the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code (the Agvet Code) scheduled to the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Act 1994.

Eva Bennet-Jenkins

Chief Executive Officer

Dated this third day of January 2008

1.         Name of Instrument

This Instrument is the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Amendment Instrument No. 2 (Multiple Applications) 2008.

2.         Commencement

This Instrument commences on the day after it is registered.

3.         Amendment of the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Instrument
No. 1 (Application Fees) 2005

Schedule 1 amends the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Instrument No. 1 (Application Fees) 2005. 

Schedule 1        Amendments

1          Subsection 4(2)

add

multiple application means an application to vary the particulars or conditions of registration or label approval where the variation is to allow a minor label change (whether or not data of a technical nature is required) and the same type of variation is requested by the same applicant in respect of more than one chemical product;

2          After section 8

insert

8A.      Category 12 (application fee of $560)

A Category 12 application does not include a multiple application.

8B.      Category 14 (modular assessment fee)

A Category 14 application includes multiple applications.  The modular assessment fee for multiple applications is to apply in the manner described in subsections 17(2) and (3) of the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Instrument No. 2 (Modular Assessment Fees) 2005.