Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Amendment Regulations 2010 (No. 2) (Cth)

Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Amendment Regulations 2010 (No. 2)¹

Select Legislative Instrument 2010 No. 108

I, QUENTIN BRYCE, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Act 1994.

Dated 3 June 2010

QUENTIN BRYCE

Governor-General

By Her Excellency’s Command

TONY BURKE

Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

1. Name of Regulations

These Regulations are the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Amendment Regulations 2010 (No. 2).

1. Commencement

These Regulations commence on the day after they are registered.

1. Amendment of Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Regulations 1995

Schedule 1 amends the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Regulations 1995.

Schedule 1          Amendments

(regulation 3)

[1]          Subregulation 3 (1), after definition of CSIRO

insert

EDTA means ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid.

[2]          Schedule 3, Part 3, after item 18

insert

19

Any product for domestic use by householders in controlling a plant disease or pest, that:

   (a)  is a food normally consumed by human beings; and

  (b)  is not a plant extract or other manufactured compound; and

   (c)  is not claimed to have effect as an agricultural chemical product; and

  (d)  is not expressly supplied as an agricultural chemical product

[3]          Schedule 3AA, Part 3, after item 4

insert

5

Any bitterant product for application to a building, piece of equipment or other object, that:

   (a)  is solely for reducing or preventing animals that are not food producing species from biting or chewing the building, piece of equipment or other object; and

  (b)  contains no antiseptic, antimicrobial, antibiotic or other active constituent other than a bitterant

6

Any product applied topically to the teeth, hair, fur or intact skin of an animal to cosmetically alter the animal’s appearance or odour, that:

   (a)  contains no antiseptic, antimicrobial, or antibiotic active constituent, and

  (b)  is solely for cosmetic purposes; and

   (c)  is not claimed to have any benefits other than cosmetic benefits; and

  (d)  is not supplied or used for any therapeutic benefit other than to cosmetically alter the animal’s appearance or odour

7

Any product for topical application to an animal to provide a physical barrier, that:

   (a)  is chemically inert; and

  (b)  does not act by biochemical means; and

   (c)  is not a teat sealant; and

  (d)  contains no antiseptic, antimicrobial, antibiotic or other active constituent; and

   (e)  is not claimed to have any effect other than as a physical barrier

8

Any autograft, allograft or xenograft product supplied to veterinary surgeons for surgical procedures, except blood and stem cell products

9

Any product for use as an extender for sperm, ova or semen, if:

   (a)  the product contains no ingredients other than antibiotics, albumins, electrolytes, amino acids, EDTA, buffers or stabilising agents; and

  (b)  any antibiotic in the product is not at a concentration greater than 0.1 mg/mL or 0.1mg/g

Note

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