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GENE TECHNOLOGY ACT 2000 - SECT 24

Ministerial Council may issue codes of practice
(1)
The Ministerial Council may 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 Consultative Committee;

(c)
the Ethics 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.

(3)
Codes of practice are disallowable instruments for the purposes of section 46A of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 .



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