Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1995 No. 27 AGRICULTURAL AND VETERINARY CHEMICALS CODE REGULATIONS - REG 42

42. (1) For the purposes of section 87 of the Code (which deals with standards
for chemical products), all chemical products are prescribed.

(2) Section 7 of the Act (which deals with the power to make orders) applies
to the specification of standards in respect of:

   (a)  a chemical product; and

   (b)  a constituent contained in a chemical product.

(3) The standard for a chemical product, or a constituent contained in a
chemical product, is:

   (a)  the standard specified in respect of the chemical product or the
        constituent in an order under section 7 of the Act; or

   (b)  in the case of a constituent (not being a constituent referred to in
        paragraph (a)) in respect of which a standard is specified in Appendix
        L of the Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Drugs and Poisons-that
        standard; or

   (c)  in the case of a veterinary chemical product or of a constituent (not
        being a chemical product or constituent referred to in paragraph (a)
        or (b)), in respect of which a standard is specified in:

        (i)    the British Pharmacopoeia; or

        (ii)   the British Pharmacopoeia (Veterinary); or

        (iii)  the European Pharmacopoeia; or

        (iv)   the United States Pharmacopoeia; the standard specified in the
               first of those publications, in the order set out in this
               paragraph, that applies to the product or constituent; or

   (d)  in the case of a chemical product or constituent (not being a product
        or constituent referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (c)), in respect
        of which a standard is specified in any of the
        FAO Specifications for Plant Protection Products-that standard; or

   (e)  in the case of a chemical product or constituent (not being a product
        or constituent referred to in paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d))-the
        standard (if any) approved by the NRA in respect of the product or
        constituent.

(4) If no standard is prescribed under subregulation (3) in respect of the
concentration of an active constituent of a particular chemical product, the
standard in respect of the concentration of that active constituent is the
standard set out in the following table:
Concentration of each active constituent
as specified on the product label
(g/kg or g/L at 20 degrees C)
Standard
(allowable variation)
    500 or more               +/- 25 g/kg or g/L of the active

constituent
From 250 up to but not including 500
+/- 5% of the content of the active
constituent
From 100 up to but not including 250
+/- 6% of the content of the active
constituent
    Less than 100             +/- 10% of the content of the active

constituent