43Approved foreign scheme

#### 43 Approved foreign scheme (1) In this section: > foreign scheme means a chemicals notification and assessment scheme operating in a foreign country. (2) The Minister may, by notice published in the Chemical Gazette, approve a specified foreign scheme for the purposes of this Act. (3) An importer or a manufacturer of a new industrial chemical may, by notice to the Minister in the approved form, nominate a foreign scheme for approval by the Minister. (4) The Minister may approve a foreign scheme in relation to all industrial chemicals or in relation to industrial chemicals specified in the notice of approval. (4A) The Minister may, in the notice of approval, state that a report of a specified kind that is made under the foreign scheme is to be the approved report in relation to the chemical for the purposes of paragraph 44(1)(b). (5) The Minister is not to approve a foreign scheme in relation to a chemical unless satisfied that notifications and assessments under it relating to the chemical are of a standard equivalent to, or higher than, those under this Act. (6) If, at any time after approving a scheme under subsection (2), the Minister ceases to be satisfied of the matters referred to in subsection (5), the Minister is to revoke the approval by notice in the Chemical Gazette.