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GENE TECHNOLOGY ACT 2000 - SECT 74
Notifiable low risk dealings
- (1)
- The regulations may declare a dealing with a GMO to be a notifiable low
risk dealing for the purposes of this Act.
- (2)
- Before the Governor-General makes regulations declaring a dealing with a
GMO to be a notifiable low risk dealing, the Regulator must be satisfied that
the dealing would not involve the intentional release of a GMO into the
environment.
- (3)
- Before the Governor-General makes regulations declaring a dealing with a
GMO to be a notifiable low risk dealing, the Regulator must consider the
following matters:
- (a)
- whether the GMO is biologically contained so that it is not able to
survive or reproduce without human intervention;
- (b)
- whether the dealing with the GMO would involve minimal risk to the health
and safety of people and to the environment, taking into account the
properties of the GMO as a pathogen or pest and the toxicity of any proteins
produced by the GMO;
- (c)
- whether no conditions, or minimal conditions, would be necessary to be
prescribed to manage any risk referred to in paragraph (b).
- (4)
- Regulations under subsection (1) may be expressed to apply to:
- (a)
- all dealings with a GMO or with a specified class of GMOs; or
- (b)
- a specified class of dealings with a GMO or with a specified class of
GMOs; or
- (c)
- one or more specified dealings with a GMO or with a specified class of
GMOs.
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