Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1990 No. 4401

Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Regulations2 (Amendment)

I. THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Act 1989.

Dated 17 December 1990.

BILL HAYDEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command.

PETER COOK

Minister of State for Industrial Relations

 

1. Amendment

1.1 The Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Regulations are amended as set out in these Regulations.

2. Regulation 2 (Interpretation)

2.1 Insert:

“ ‘Library’ means:

The Library

Worksafe Australia

92-94 Parramatta Road

Camperdown New South Wales 2050:

‘inspection times’ means between 1000 hours and noon and between 1400 hours and 1600 hours on each day that is not:

(a) a Saturday or a Sunday: or

(b) a public holiday:

(i) in the place where the Library is located: or

(ii) for the purposes of the Australian Public Service in that place:”.

(S.R.488/90)—Cat. No. 3/10.12.1990

3. Regulation 5 (Prescribed form of Inventory)

3.1 Subparagraphs 5 (b) (i), (ii) and (iii):

Omit the subparagraphs, substitute:

“(i) the names of the chemicals in the same order as the sequence of the names followed by the Chemical Abstracts Service:

(ii) the Chemical Abstracts Service numbers of the chemicals in the same order as those numbers or, if those numbers are not available, in accordance with an alternative numbering system:

(iii) the molecular formulas of the chemicals in the same order as the sequence of the formulas followed by the Chemical Abstracts Service.”.

4. Regulation 6 (Inspection of Inventory)

4.1 Omit all the words after “public”, substitute “at the Library at the inspection times”.

5. Regulation 7 (Prescribed international inventory of chemicals)

5.1 Paragraph 7 (d):

Omit “List”, substitute “Act”.

6. New regulation 7a

6.1 After regulation 7. insert:

Statements by importers of chemicals

“7a. (1) The importer of a chemical must keep a statement in accordance with subregulation (2) together with documents relating to the chemical that are relevant commercial documents within the meaning of section 240 of the Customs Act 1901.

“(2) The statement must be in writing and specify:

(a) whether the chemical is or contains, an industrial chemical: and

(b) in the case of an industrial chemical—whether a submission for the inclusion of the chemical in the Inventory is being dealt with under section 13 of the Act: and

(c) whether the chemical is a new industrial chemical: and

(d) whether there is an assessment certificate under section 39 of the Act in force in relation to the chemical: and

(e) in the case of a chemical to which paragraph (b) or (d) does not apply—whether subsection 21 (2) of the Act applies to the chemical.”.

7. Regulation 10 (Inspection of reports)

7.1 Omit all the words after “public”, substitute “at the Library at the inspection times”.

8. Regulation 11 (Inspection of Material Safety Data Sheets)

8.1 Omit all the words after “public”, substitute “at the Library at the inspection times”.

9. Regulation 12 (Inspection of Chemical Gazette)

9.1 Omit all the words after “public”, substitute “at the Library at the inspection times”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 21 December 1990.

2. Statutory Rules 1990 No. 231.

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