Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations(1) For the purposes of subsection 89(3) of the Code, a person is not prevented from making or reporting a statement about a chemical product if the statement is not made for the purpose of promoting the product and is one of the following kinds of statement:
(i) in a scientific paper or other scientific literature, or in a scientific report or presentation; or
(ii) at a conference or seminar, or in an address, meeting or discussion, concerning chemical products;
being a statement based on data published in a reputable, refereed scientific journal or of a standard publishable in such a journal;
(b) a statement made on radio or television or in a newspaper, journal or newsletter, as fair comment on any material:
(i) published for the purposes of a conference or seminar; and
(ii) based on data referred to in paragraph (a).
(2) Nothing in subregulation (1) is taken to permit a
statement that would, apart from that subregulation, contravene section
84 of the Code.