Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Control of Use) Act 2004
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5 Agricultural chemical products (1) An agricultural chemical product is a substance or mixture of substances that is represented, imported, manufactured, supplied or used as a means of directly or indirectly: (a) destroying, stupefying, repelling, inhibiting the feeding of, or preventing infestation by or attacks of, any pest of any plant, place or thing; (b) destroying a plant; (c) modifying the physiology of a plant or pest so as to alter its natural development, productivity, quality or reproductive capacity; (d) modifying the effect of another agricultural chemical product; or
Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Control of Use) Act 2004 8 (e) attracting a pest to destroy it. (2) An agricultural chemical product includes: (a) a substance or mixture of substances declared by the Agvet Regulations to be an agricultural chemical product; and (b) a substance or mixture of substances declared under subsection (4) to be an agricultural chemical product. (3) An agricultural chemical product does not include: (a) a veterinary chemical product; (b) a substance or mixture of substances declared by the Agvet Regulations not to be an agricultural chemical product; or (c) a substance or mixture of substances declared under subsection (5) not to be an agricultural chemical product. (4) The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, declare: (a) a substance or mixture of substances to be an agricultural (b) a class of substances or class of mixtures of substances to be agricultural chemical products. (5) The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, declare: (a) a substance or mixture of substances not to be an agricultural (b) a class of substances or class of mixtures of substances not to be agricultural chemical products.