Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Regulations (Amendment) 1994 No. 454
EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Statutory Rules 1994 No. 454
Issued by the Authority of the Assistant Minister for Industrial Relations
Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Act 1989
Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Regulations (Amendment)
Section 111 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.
Section 19 of the Act provides for the transfer of industrial chemicals from the confidential section to the non-confidential section of the Australian Inventory of Chemical Substances. Subsection 19(7) of the Act provides that a statement may be given to the Director of Chemicals Notification and Assessment, setting out reasons why a chemical should not be transferred.
Paragraph 110(1)(c) of the Act provides in part that the regulations may prescribe fees in respect of a statement under subsection 19(7).
Item 3 of Schedule 2 of the Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Regulations (the Regulations) previously prescribed a fee of $1000 in relation to a statement under subsection 19(7) of the Act.
Following industry concerns at the level of this fee, it was been reviewed.
A revised fee of $600 is now prescribed, on the basis of 100% cost recovery.
Subregulation 2.1 amends Item 3 of Schedule 2 to the Regulations to provide for an amended fee of $600.