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GENE TECHNOLOGY ACT 2000 - SECT 24

Ministerial Council may issue codes of practice

  (1)   The Ministerial Council may, by legislative instrument, issue codes of practice in relation to gene technology.

Note:   Subsection   33(3) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 confers power to revoke or amend an instrument issued under an Act.

  (2)   The Ministerial Council must not issue a code of practice unless the code of practice was developed by the Regulator in consultation with the following:

  (a)   the Gene Technology Technical Advisory Committee;

  (b)   the Ethics and Community Committee;

  (d)   such Commonwealth and State agencies and such regulatory agencies as the Ministerial Council considers appropriate;

  (e)   such industry groups as the Ministerial Council considers appropriate;

  (f)   such environmental, consumer and other groups as the Ministerial Council considers appropriate.

 


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