Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1995 No. 27 AGRICULTURAL AND VETERINARY CHEMICALS CODE REGULATIONS - REG 55

55. (1) Section 7 of the Act (which deals with the power to make orders)
applies to prescribing tests for the analysis of samples of substances or
mixtures of substances for the purposes of the Code.

(2) For the purposes of Part 5 of the Code, a sample of a substance or mixture
of substances must be analysed by means of any of the following tests that
apply to the substance or mixture:

   (a)  a test prescribed in an order made under section 7 of the Act;

   (b)  if the substance or mixture is a chemical product in respect of which
        a test is accepted by the NRA for the purposes of registration of that
        chemical product-that test;

   (c)  if the substance or mixture is an agricultural chemical product-a test
        specified for that product in:

        (i)    the CIPAC Handbook and Addenda published by the Collaborative
               International Pesticides Analytical Council Limited; or

        (ii)   the AOAC Manual and Addenda published by the Association of
               Official Analytical Chemists;

   (d)  if the substance or mixture is a veterinary chemical product-a test
        specified for that product in:

        (i)    the British Pharmacopoeia; or

        (ii)   the British Pharmacopoeia (Veterinary); or

        (iii)  the European Pharmacopoeia; or

        (iv)   the US Pharmacopoeia;

   (e)  any other test approved by the NRA as equivalent to a test specified
        in paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d).