Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations(1) In these Regulations:
"Act" means the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Administration) Act 1992 .
"active constituent" has the same meaning as in the Agvet Code of the participating Territories.
"agricultural chemical product" has the same meaning as in the Agvet Code of the participating Territories.
"Agvet Code of the participating Territories" has the same meaning as in subsection 5(1) of the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Act 1994 .
"authorised officer" has the meaning given by regulation 1.4.
"CAS number" or Chemical Abstracts Service number means the registry number:
(a) assigned to the chemical by the Chemical Abstracts Se rvice, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America; and
(b) published by the Service in the journal Chemical Abstracts .
"chemical product" has the same meaning as in the Agvet Code of the participating Territories.
"Collector" has the meaning given by subsection 8(1) of the Customs Act 1901 .
"controlled chemical" has the meaning given by regulation 1.3A.
"generic information" has the meaning given by regulation 1.5.
"import decision" means a response, made under paragraph 2 of Article 10 of the Rotterdam Convention, providing a response in accordance with the requirements of paragraph 4 of that Article that consists of a final decision or an interim decision (within the respective meanings given by that paragraph):
(a) consenting to import with or without specified conditions; or
(b) not consenting to import.
"IUPAC name" means a name assigned to a chemical by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, set out in International Standard ISO 1750--1981: Pesticides and Agrochemicals--Common Names , published in Geneva by the International Standards Organisation in 1981.
"mercury" means elemental mercury (Hg(0), CAS Number 7439 - 97 - 6), and includes mixtures of mercury (including alloys of mercury) with a mercury concentration of at least 95% by weight, but does not include non - Minamata mercury.
"mercury-added products" means the products listed in Part 1 of Annex A to the Minamata Convention that contain mercury, but does not include the following:
(a) products essential for civil protection and military uses;
(b) products for research, calibration of instrumentation, or for use as a reference standard;
(c) if no feasible mercury - free alternative for a replacement is available--the following:
(i) switches and relays;
(ii) cold cathode fluorescent lamps and external electrode fluorescent lamps for electronic displays;
(iii) measuring devices;
(d) products used in traditional or religious practices;
(e) vaccines containing thiomersal as preservatives.
"Minamata Convention" means the Minamata Convention on Mercury done at Minamata on 10 October 2013, as in force for Australia at the commencement of this definition.
Note: The Convention could in 2021 be viewed in the Australian Treaties Library on the AustLII website (http://www.austlii.edu.au).
"multiple entry import permit" has the meaning given by regulation 3.310.
"multiple exit export permit" has the meaning given by regulation 3.310.
"multiple permit" means a multiple entry import permit or multiple exit export permit.
"non-Minamata mercury" means any of the following:
(a) research mercury;
(b) naturally occurring trace quantities of mercury present in:
(i) products such as non - mercury metals, ores or mineral products (including coal); or
(ii) products derived from the products mentioned in subparagraph (i);
(c) unintentional trace quantities of mercury in chemical products.
"non-party" , in relation to a Convention, means a country that has not consented to be bound by the Convention or for which the Convention is not in force.
"prescribed chemical" means:
(a) an active constituent or chemical product that has been prescribed by these Regulations for the purposes of section 69CA or 69CB of the Act; or
(b) a chemical product containing an active constituent referred to in paragraph (a).
"research mercury" means mercury to be used for laboratory - scale research or as a reference standard.
"Rotterdam Convention" means the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade.
Note: In 2012, the text of the Convention was available at www.pic.int.
"Secretariat" means:
(a) in relation to the Rotterdam Convention, the secretariat established under Article 19 of that Convention; and
(b) in relation to the Stockholm Convention, the secretariat established under Article 20 of that Convention.
"Stockholm Convention" means the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs).
Note: In 2012, the text of the Convention was available at www.pops.int.
"veterinary chemical product" has the same meaning as in the Agvet Code of the participating Territories.
(2) Unless the contrary intention appears, a term that is defined in an international agreement or arrangement and that is used in these Regulations has the same meaning in these Regulations when used in relation to that agreement or arrangement.
(3) A reference in these Regulations to an active constituent is a reference to an active constituent for a proposed or existing chemical product.