EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Statutory Rules 1990 No. 440
Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Regulations Amendment
(Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Industrial Relations)
Section 111 (b) of the Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Act 1989 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations for the purposes of the Act.
Regulation 2 - Interpretation
Regulations 6, 10, 11 and 12 contained the name and address of the Worksafe Library. The address of the Library changed on 16 December 1990. Regulation 2 changes the address and simplifies the regulations by defining “library” and “inspection times”.
Regulation 3 - Prescribed form of inventory
Sub-section 11(2) of the Act requires that the Australian Inventory of Chemical Substances be kept in the prescribed form. Regulation 5 of the principal Regulations prescribes the form in which the inventory is to be kept. The wording of the regulation was inaccurate, and is corrected by the proposed regulation.
Regulations 4, 7, 8 and 9
Regulations 4, 7, 8 and 9 make consequential amendments to regulations 6, 10, 11 and 12 following from the inclusion of definitions of “library” and “inspection times” in regulation 2.
Regulation 5
Regulation 5 amends regulation 7 to correct a minor error.
Regulation 6
Regulation 6 inserts a new regulation 7A after regulation 7. The regulation requires an importer of a chemical to attach to documents which are required under the Customs Act 1901 a statement containing information relating to the chemical.