8UAPVMA to prepare standards

#### 8U APVMA to prepare standards (1) This section applies in respect of each listed chemical product, whether or not the product is the subject of a monograph in the British Pharmacopoeia or the British Pharmacopoeia (Veterinary) or in a similar publication. (2) The APVMA must, by legislative instrument, make a standard for each listed chemical product. A particular standard may relate to a specified chemical product or specified chemical products or to each chemical product in a specified class of chemical products. (3) The standard for a listed chemical product must require that the product be labelled in a manner, or kept in containers that comply with requirements, specified in the standard. (4) The APVMA may, in a standard, direct that the particulars required by the standard be set out, in a manner specified in the standard, on: (a) chemical products, or a class of chemical products, identified in the standard; or (b) a container containing chemical products, or a class of chemical products, identified in the standard; or (c) a label for containers for chemical products, or a class of chemical products, identified in the standard. (5) A standard for a listed chemical product: (a) may be specified by reference to any one or more of the following: (i) the composition and form of the constituents of the product; (ii) the physical and chemical properties of the chemical product; (iii) the quantity of the chemical product when contained in specified containers; (iv) procedures to be carried out in the manufacture of the chemical product; (v) a monograph in the British Pharmacopoeia or the British Pharmacopoeia (Veterinary); (vi) a monograph in another publication approved by the APVMA for the purposes of this subparagraph; (vii) a monograph referred to in subparagraph (v) or (vi) as modified in a manner specified in the standard; (viii) a standard published by Standards Australia; (ix) such other matters as the APVMA thinks fit; and (b) may require that a matter relating to the standard be determined in accordance with a particular test. (6) Subsections (4) and (5) do not limit subsection (3). (7) The standard made by the APVMA in relation to a listed chemical product is the established standard for the product. > Note: The APVMA may revoke or amend a standard. See subsection 33(3) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.