8TRegulations may include schedule of listed chemical products

#### 8T Regulations may include schedule of listed chemical products (1) The regulations may include a schedule specifying chemical products, or classes of chemical products, that are listed chemical products for the purposes of this Code. (2) Before the Governor‑General makes a regulation that includes, or amends, the schedule referred to in subsection (1), the APVMA must publish in the Gazette, and in any other manner that the APVMA thinks appropriate, a notice: (a) stating that it proposes to recommend to the Minister that the regulation be made; and (b) setting out particulars of the chemical products, or class of chemical products, that would be covered, or otherwise affected, by the regulation; and (c) setting out a draft standard the APVMA proposes to make under section 8U in relation to each chemical product that would be covered by the regulation; and (d) giving the reasons for the proposed recommendation; and (e) inviting any person, within a period of at least 28 days specified in the notice, to make a written submission to the APVMA as to whether the proposed regulation should be made and stating the grounds on which the submission is based, which must be grounds relating to the matters mentioned in paragraph 8V(a). (3) In making a recommendation to the Minister, the APVMA must take into account any submissions made in accordance with the invitation. (4) Before the Governor‑General makes a regulation that includes, or amends, the schedule referred to in subsection (1): (a) the APVMA must have recommended to the Minister that the regulation be made; and (b) the APVMA must have given to the Minister: (i) its reasons for the recommendation; and (ii) written particulars of the product or class of products that would be covered, or otherwise affected, by the regulation; and (iii) a draft of the standard that the APVMA proposes to make under section 8U for the product, or for products in the class, if the product or class is specified in the schedule; and (iv) a written explanation as to why the APVMA is satisfied that the product, or class of products, meets the safety criteria, the trade criteria and the efficacy criteria (see section 8V); and (v) a written statement identifying the consultations held by, and setting out the advice given to, the APVMA in relation to the proposed regulation.