Fertilizers Amendment Regulations (No. 2) 1992 (WA)

6314   GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA [31 December 1992

(No. 2) 1992.

AG304 FERTILIZERS ACT 1977

k,RT]LIZERS AMENDMENT REGULATIONS (NO. 2) 1992

Made by His Excellency the Governor in Executive Council.

Citation
1. These regulations may be cited as the Fertilizers Amendment Regulations

31 December 1992] GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 6315

Commencement

2. These regulations come into operation on 1 January 1993.

Principal regulations

3.. In these regulations the Fertilizers Regulations 1978* are referred to as the

principal regulations.

[* Published in the Gazette of 15 September 1978 at pp. 3436-42.	For amendments to 11 December 1992 see 1991 Index to Legislation
of Western Australia, p. 318, and Gazette of 24 July 1992 at p. 3610.]

Regulation 2 amended

4. Regulation 2 of the principal regulations is amended by inserting after the

definition of "Form" the following definitions —

"prescribed fertilizer" means a fertilizer that contains more

than —

(a)	0.008% of cadmium or cadmium compounds by weight;
(b)	0.0005% of mercury or mercury compounds by weight; or
(c)	0.05% of lead or lead compounds by weight;

"prescribed phosphatic fertilizer" means a fertilizer containing

phosphorus that also contains more than —

(a)	0.05% of cadmium or cadmium compounds; or
(b)	0.005% of mercury or mercury compounds,
determined by reference to the weight of phosphorus in the	fl
fertilizer;

Regulation 21 inserted

5.      After regulation 20 of the principal regulations the following regulation is

inserted —

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Sale of prescribed or prescribed phosphatic fertilizers prohibited

21. (1) The sale of prescribed fertilizer or prescribed phosphatic

fertilizer is prohibited.
(2)	Subregulation (1) does not apply to prescribed fertilizer or

prescribed phosphatic fertilizer that was registered before this

regulation came into operation.

By His Excellency's Command,

D. G. BLIGHT, Clerk of the Council.