44Prescribed level of residue which adversely affects plants, stock &c.

44 Prescribed level of residue which adversely affects plants, stock &c.

(1)  In this regulation –

Drinking Water Guidelines means the Australian Drinking Water Guidelines 6 (2011), published by the National Health and Medical Research Council established by the National Health and Medical Research Council Act 1992 of the Commonwealth, as amended or substituted from time to time.

(2)  The following levels of residue are the prescribed levels for the purposes of the definition of adversely affects in section 30(3) of the Act:

(a) in the case of stock and agricultural produce, the maximum residue limit;

(b) in the case of water used as or to provide drinking water for stock, other animals and humans, the level relating to the stock, other animals or humans specified in the Drinking Water Guidelines;

(c) in the case of groundwater or soil, the level which the Registrar determines in relation to the whole State, a part of the State or an area will likely result in the contamination of agricultural produce that is derived from one or more of the following:

(i) plants grown in the soil in the State, that part of the State or that area;

(ii) stock in contact with the soil in the State, that part of the State or that area;

(iii) stock or plants in contact with the groundwater in the State, that part of the State or that area;

(d) in the case of premises, the level which the Registrar determines in relation to the whole State, part of the State or an area will likely result in –

(i) the contamination of agricultural produce that is stored in, processed in or otherwise in contact with the premises; or

(ii) rendering anything on those premises unsuitable for its normal use;

(e) in the case of agricultural produce intended for use as stockfood, the level which the Registrar determines in relation to the whole State, a part of the State or an area is likely to result in the contamination of stock fed on that stockfood.