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Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Act 1989
7Meaning of industrial chemical
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#### 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.