23AConsultation with Gene Technology Regulator

23A Consultation with Gene Technology Regulator

[Section 23A Inserted by No. 53 of 2001, s. 167, Applied:01 May 2003]

(1)  A duty imposed or a function or power conferred on the NRA under section 8A of the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Administration) Act in respect of any matter arising in relation to the Agvet Code set out in the Schedule to the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Act extends to any corresponding matter arising in relation to the applicable provisions of this jurisdiction, and that section applies accordingly.

(2)  [Section 23A Subsection (2) amended by No. 15 of 2012, Sched. 1, Applied:27 Jun 2012] If the NRA gives the Regulator, within the meaning of the Gene Technology Act 2000 of the Commonwealth, a notice under section 8A(3) of the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Administration) Act (as that section applies by force of subsection (1) of this section), the Regulator may give written advice to the NRA about the application, reconsideration or issue.

(3)  The advice is to be given within the period specified in the notice.

(4)  A reference in the Agvet Code of Tasmania to a provision of section 8A of the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Administration) Act has effect as if it were a reference to that provision as applying by force of subsection (1) of this section.