Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Regulations 1999 (Cth)

Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Regulations 1999

Statutory Rules 1999 No. 326

I, WILLIAM PATRICK DEANE, 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 Act 1994.

Dated 15 December 1999.

WILLIAM DEANE

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

JUDITH TROETH

Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture,

Fisheries and Forestry

for the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Regulations 1999

Statutory Rules 1999 No. 3261

made under the

Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Act 1994

   

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1Name of Regulations

 These Regulations are the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Regulations 1999.

2Commencement

 These Regulations commence on gazettal.

3Definition

 In these Regulations:

Act means the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Act 1994.

4Prescribed functions (Act s 18)

For section 18 of the Act, the following functions are prescribed in relation to the Director of Public Prosecutions of the Commonwealth (the Director):

• (a)

  to begin prosecutions on indictment for indictable offences against the Agvet Code, or the Agvet Regulations, of a State;

• (b)

  to carry on prosecutions of the kind mentioned in paragraph (a), whether or not begun by the Director;

• (c)

  to begin proceedings for the commitment of persons for trial for indictable offences against the Agvet Code, or the Agvet Regulations, of a State;

• (d)

  to begin proceedings for the summary conviction of persons for offences against the Agvet Code, or the Agvet Regulations, of a State;

• (e)

  to carry on proceedings of a kind mentioned in paragraph (c) or (d), whether or not begun by the Director;

• (f)

  to do anything incidental or conducive to the performance of any of the functions mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (e).

Note State includes the Northern Territory — see s 4 of the Act.

Note

1. Made by the Governor-General on 15 December 1999, and notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 22 December 1999.