17Public consultation about scheduling decision for relevant industrial chemical

17 Public consultation about scheduling decision for relevant industrial chemical

(1) Before making, varying or revoking a scheduling decision for a relevant industrial chemical, the Minister must cause to be published on the Environment Department’s website a notice: (a) setting out the proposed decision or the proposed variation or revocation of the decision; and (b) inviting persons to make submissions to the Minister about the proposed decision, or the proposed variation or revocation of the decision, in the manner, and within the time limit, specified in the notice.

Note: This subsection may not apply to the making of a scheduling decision for a particular industrial chemical to which an assessment certificate relates: see section 18.

(2) The time limit must not be shorter than 20 business days after the notice is published. (3) Subsection (1) does not apply to a variation of a scheduling decision for a relevant industrial chemical if the variation is of a minor nature. (4) For the purposes of subsection (3), a variation of a scheduling decision for a relevant industrial chemical that does no more than change the way or ways in which the chemical is identified is taken to be a variation of a minor nature. (5) If: (a) a scheduling decision for a relevant industrial chemical specified a generalised end use for the chemical in lieu of the end use for the chemical; and (b) a variation of the scheduling decision does no more than to specify the end use for the chemical instead of that generalised end use; then, for the purposes of subsection (3), the variation is taken to be a variation of a minor nature.