1Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code (Efficacy Criteria) Determination 2014

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Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code (Efficacy Criteria) Determination 2014

Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code

I, Kareena Arthy, Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority, make this Determination for subsection 5B(1) of the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code (the Agvet Code), scheduled to the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Act 1994.

Kareena Arthy

Chief Executive Officer

Dated this 25th day of June 2014

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Part 1 Preliminary

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Name of instrument

This instrument is the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code (Efficacy Criteria) Determination 2014.

Commencement

This Determination commences on the commencement of the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Legislation Amendment (2013 Measures No. 2) Regulation 2013.

Part 2 Agricultural chemical products

3 Criteria based on type of product

(1) The use of an agricultural chemical product, in accordance with instructions approved, or to be approved, by the APVMA for the product, is, or would be, effective if:

(a) the use is as:

(i) a domestic or home garden product (see subsection (2)); or
(ii) an adjuvant, wetter or surfactant; or
(iii) a drift retardant; or
(iv) a plant growth regulator; or
(v) a semiochemical-based mating disruptor or semiochemical lure; or
(vi) a defoliant; or
(vii) a spray-marker dye; or
(viii) a mosquito coil or candle; and

(b) each active constituent of the product is used in 1 or more other registered chemical products for an equivalent use (that is, for an equivalent pest or purpose at equivalent rates of active constituent application).

(2) For subparagraph (1)(a)(i), a domestic or home garden product:

(a) includes products developed only for use for domestic or home garden purposes and available to the general public via normal retail outlets, but only where those products are insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, miticides and nematicides, molluscicides, rodenticides or dog and cat repellents; and

(b) does not include products used to sanitise swimming pools or spas.