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Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Act 1994
101Recall of products that are not registered or whose registration is being reconsidered
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#### 101 Recall of products that are not registered or whose registration is being reconsidered
(1) If:
(a) a chemical product (other than a reserved chemical product) is not registered under the Agvet Code of this jurisdiction; or
(b) the APVMA is reconsidering the registration of a chemical product under Division 4 of Part 2 of that Code;
the APVMA may give written notice to any person (the notified person) who has, or has had, possession or custody of stocks of the product, or of a particular batch of the product, in this jurisdiction, requiring the notified person to do any one or more of the things mentioned in subsection (2).
(2) The things that the notified person may be required to do under subsection (1) are as follows:
(a) not to supply, or to stop supplying, the product, or that batch, in this jurisdiction either immediately or within a stated period;
(b) to take any action stated in the notice that the notified person is reasonably capable of taking to recover stocks of the product or of that batch from any other person in this jurisdiction:
(i) to whom the product or that batch has been supplied by the notified person; or
(ii) who has possession or custody of any such stocks directly or indirectly because of a supply by the notified person;
(c) if the product is not registered—to destroy, as stated in the notice, stocks of the product or of that batch in the possession or custody of, or recovered by, the notified person in this jurisdiction or to deal with them as stated in the notice;
(d) to report to the APVMA within a stated period on the action taken by the notified person under the notice.