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Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Act 1989
60EVariation of draft assessment report
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#### 60E Variation of draft assessment report
(1) Within 56 days of giving the draft assessment report to each applicant, the Director must:
(a) give a copy of the draft report with any corrections to each applicant and to any person who has provided information for the assessment in response to a notice under section 58; and
(b) publish a notice in the Chemical Gazette:
(i) describing the matters contained in the draft report; and
(ii) stating that the draft report has been given to each applicant and person who provided information under section 58; and
(iii) describing how a person may obtain a copy of the draft report; and
(iv) describing how a person may ask the Director to vary the draft report.
(2) Within 28 days of the publication of the notice under subsection (1), a person may request the Director, in the approved form, to vary the draft report.
(3) The Director must make a decision about the variation within 56 days after the publication of the notice under subsection (1).
(4) The Director must decide to vary the draft report as requested if he or she is satisfied that the report, varied as requested, would be correct.
(5) The Director must decide to refuse to vary the draft report as requested if he or she is not satisfied that the report, varied as requested, would be correct.
(6) If one, or more than one, request for a variation has been made under subsection (2), the Director must, as soon as he or she has made a decision concerning the request or concerning each such request:
(a) publish a notice in the Chemical Gazette:
(i) stating that a decision concerning the request or each request has been made; and
(ii) describing how a person may otherwise obtain a copy of the decision or each decision; and
(b) give a copy of the decision or each decision and a copy of the notice to:
(i) each applicant for assessment of the chemical; and
(ii) each person who made a request.