181Existing permit

#### 181 Existing permit (1) If: (a) immediately before the commencement of the Agvet Code of this jurisdiction, there was in force a permit or other instrument issued by the previous registering authority of this jurisdiction in respect of an active constituent for a proposed or existing chemical product or in respect of a chemical product; and (b) the permit or other instrument authorised persons generally, or a person or class of persons, to do or omit to do any thing the doing of which, or the omission to do which, after that commencement would, apart from this section, be an offence against section 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 84, 85, 87 or 91 of that Code or against an eligible law of this jurisdiction; the following subsections apply. (2) The permit or other instrument, to the extent that it authorises a person to do or omit to do that thing, is taken to be a permit that the APVMA has issued under section 114 of that Code upon that commencement subject to the conditions (if any) to which it was subject immediately before that commencement. (3) The person who applied for the permit or other instrument is taken to be the person who applied for the permit under that Code.