Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Control of Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2003 (Vic)

Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Control of

Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2003

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TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Regulation Page

1.	Objective	1
2.	Authorising provisions	1
3.	Revocation	1
4.	New definitions inserted	2
5.	New regulation 16A inserted	2
16A.	Records of use of hormonal growth promotants	2

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STATUTORY RULES 2003

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Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Control of Use) Act

1992

Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Control of

Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2003

The Governor in Council makes the following Regulations:
Dated: 6 May 2003

Responsible Minister:

BOB CAMERON

Minister for Agriculture

HELEN DOYE

Clerk of the Executive Council

1. Objective

The objective of these Regulations is to amend the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Control of Use) Regulations 1996 to require users of

hormonal growth promotants to keep certain

records.

2. Authorising provisions

These Regulations are made under sections 27 and
76 of the Agricultural and Veterinary

Chemicals (Control of Use) Act 1992.

3. Revocation

The Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals
(Hormonal Growth Promotants) (Amendment)
Regulations 19951 are revoked.

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4. New definitions inserted

In regulation 4 of the Agricultural and Veterinary

Chemicals (Control of Use) Regulations 19962

insert the following definitions

' "hormonal growth promotant" means a

veterinary chemical product containing
oestrogenic, androgenic or gestagenic
activity to enhance growth or production in

bovines and bubalines;

"property identification number" means the

code or number issued by the Secretary
under section 9B(3) of the Livestock

Disease Control Act 1994;

"user of a hormonal growth promotant" means

the person who

(a)	treats an animal with a hormonal growth promotant; or
(b)	manages the property on which the animal is treated;'.

5. New regulation 16A inserted

After regulation 16 of the Agricultural and

Veterinary Chemicals (Control of Use)

Regulations 1996 insert

"16A. Records of use of hormonal growth

promotants

(1) The user of a hormonal growth promotant

must, within 24 hours of the hormonal growth promotant being used, make an accurate record of the following

information

(a) the date of treatment; and

(b) the number and type (breed, age and sex) of animals treated; and

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(c)	the name of the hormonal growth promotants used; and
(d)	the name and address of the supplier of the hormonal growth promotants used; and
(e)	the total number of hormonal growth promotants used; and
(f)	the number of implants lost or damaged during treatment; and
(g)	the address of the property on which the animals were treated; and
(h)	the property identification number of the property on which the animals were treated.

Penalty: 20 penalty units.

(2) The user of a hormonal growth promotant

must keep any record made by the user under
sub-regulation (1) for a period of 2 years.

Penalty: 20 penalty units.".

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Endnotes

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ENDNOTES

1 Reg. 3: S.R. No. 26/1995.

2 Reg. 4: S.R. No. 71/1996 as amended by S.R. Nos 38/1998 and 143/2001.