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Gene Technology (New South Wales) Act 2003
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3 Object of Act
3 Object of Act
(1) The object of this Act is to adopt in this State a uniform Australian approach to the regulation of genetically modified organisms.
(2) For that purpose, this Act—
(a) applies the Gene Technology Act 2000 and the Gene Technology (Licence Charges) Act 2000 of the Commonwealth as a law of this State, and
(b) makes provision to help ensure that the Commonwealth Acts and the applied law of this State are administered on a uniform basis by the Commonwealth as if they constituted a single law of the Commonwealth.