Poisons Act Amendment Act 1967 (WA)

1967.] Poisons. [No. 28.

POISONS.

No. 28 of 1967.

AN ACT to amend the Poisons Act, 1964-1966.

[Assented to 17th November, 1967.]

RE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Poisons Act ?Mgt.

Amendment Act, 1967.

(2) In this Act the Poisons Act, 1964-1966 is

referred to as the principal Act.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may

be cited as the Poisons Act, 1964-1967.

No. 28.] Poisons. [1967.

S. 20

amended. 2. Section twenty of the principal Act is amended by adding after subsection (1) a subsection as follows

(la) Without limiting the operation of subsection (1) of this section, a substance may be specified in a Schedule, and, pursuant to subsection (2) of this section, declared to be a poison or hazardous substance, as the case requires, by reference to

(a)	the manner in which or the purpose for which, it is used or intended for use;
(b)	the quantity in which it is supplied;
(c)	the nature of the package, including the labelling thereof, in which it is supplied; or
(d)	the physical or chemical state or form in which it is supplied. .

S.21

amended. 3. Section twenty-one of the principal Act is amended by adding after paragraph (a), the following paragraph-

(aa) the deletion and substitution of all of the

items in any Schedule; .

S. 21A

added. 4. The principal Act is amended by adding after

section twenty-one the following section-

Substances

controlled	21A. Where the Minister is of opinion that State regulating the supply, sale or use of any substance containing any poison or hazardous substance, he may certify in writing to that effect, and thereupon the Governor may by proclamation exempt that substance from all or any of the provisions of this Act and the regulations. .
by other
laws may be	sufficient provision is made by other laws of the
exempted
from Act.