Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1995 No. 27 AGRICULTURAL AND VETERINARY CHEMICALS CODE REGULATIONS - REG 66

66. (1) For the purposes of subparagraphs 162 (3) (a) (iii) and 162 (3) (b)
(iii) of the Code, this regulation prescribes the conditions under which
confidential commercial information of a kind described in those subparagraphs
may be disclosed by the authorised person about a chemical product or any of
its constituents.

(2) Information about a protected chemical product that is compensatable
protected registration information may be disclosed to a person ("the
requesting person") on request if the requesting person signs and gives to the
NRA, before the information is disclosed, a declaration stating that the
information will not be used in connection with an application for
registration, in Australia or elsewhere, of another chemical product, except
with the consent of the interested person in relation to the protected
chemical product.

(3) Information about a chemical product that is not compensatable protected
registration information, may be disclosed to a person on request by making it
available to that person, for the purpose of reading only, at the premises of
the NRA or, if the NRA thinks it appropriate, at other premises.

(4) Despite subregulations (2) and (3), information about a constituent of a
chemical product other than an active constituent may be disclosed to a
medical practitioner, in connection with his or her professional duties.

(5) In this regulation, "compensatable protected registration information"
means protected registration information in respect of which compensation for
provision of the information would be payable under Part 3 of the Code.