7Meaning of industrial chemical

#### 7 Meaning of industrial chemical (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears: > industrial chemical means a chemical that has an industrial use, whether or not it also has an excluded use. (2) In this section: > agricultural chemical means a substance or mixture of substances that is a means of directly or indirectly: (a) destroying, stupefying, inhibiting, attracting or repelling a pest in relation to a plant, a place or a thing; or (b) destroying a plant; or (c) modifying the physiology of a plant so as to alter its natural development, productivity or reproductive capacity; or (d) modifying the effect of another agricultural chemical product; but does not include: (e) a veterinary chemical product; or (f) a substance or mixture of substances of a kind that is declared by regulations made under the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Act 1994 not to be an agricultural chemical product for the purposes of that Act. > excluded use, in relation to a chemical, means: (a) use as an agricultural chemical or a constituent of an agricultural chemical; or (b) use as a veterinary chemical or a constituent of a veterinary chemical; or (c) therapeutic use or use as an ingredient or component in the preparation or manufacture of goods for therapeutic use; or (d) use as food intended for consumption by humans or animals or a constituent of such food; or (e) use as a food additive in food referred to in paragraph (d). > food additive means a chemical whose inclusion in food as a food additive is permitted under the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code (as defined for the purposes of the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991). > industrial use, in relation to a chemical, means a use other than an excluded use. > therapeutic use means use in, or in connection with: (a) preventing, diagnosing, curing or alleviating diseases, ailments, defects or injuries in humans; or (b) influencing, inhibiting or modifying physiological processes in humans; or (c) testing the susceptibility of humans to diseases or ailments; and, without limiting this, includes use in, or in connection with, testing for pregnancy, contraception, prosthetics or orthotics. > veterinary chemical product means a substance or mixture of substances that is: (a) a means of directly or indirectly: (i) preventing, diagnosing, curing or alleviating a disease or condition in an animal or an infestation of an animal by a pest in relation to that animal; or (ii) curing or alleviating an injury suffered by an animal; or (iii) modifying the physiology of an animal: (A) so as to alter its natural development, productivity or reproductive capacity; or (B) so as to make it more manageable; or (b) prepared by a pharmacist or veterinary surgeon, in the course of the practice of his or her profession, to deal with a particular condition of a particular animal in a particular instance; but does not include a substance or mixture of substances of a kind that is declared by regulations made under the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Act 1994 not to be a veterinary chemical product for the purposes of that Act.