Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

AGRICULTURAL AND VETERINARY CHEMICALS (ADMINISTRATION) REGULATIONS 1995 - REG 5.05

Application of amendments

  (1)   The amendments of these Regulations made by the Minamata Convention on Mercury (Consequential Amendments) Regulations   2021 apply in relation to the following:

  (a)   the importation into, export from, or manufacture in, Australia of mercury or mercury - added products on or after the commencement of that instrument (whether any application for permission to do so was made before, on or after that commencement);

  (b)   the export of research mercury from Australia on or after the commencement of that instrument (whether the application for permission to export was made before, on or after that commencement).

Pending applications for permissions to export mercury

  (2)   If:

  (a)   an application was made before the commencement of the Minamata Convention on Mercury (Consequential Amendments) Regulations   2021 under regulation   3.215 of these Regulations for a permission to export mercury (within the meaning of these Regulations as amended by that instrument); and

  (b)   as at immediately before the commencement of that instrument, no decision on the application had been made;

the application is taken, at the commencement of that instrument, never to have been made.