Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Legislation Amendment Act 2013

1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Legislation Amendment Act 2013.

2 Commencement

Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.

Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.

3 Schedule(s)

Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

4 Review of operation of amendments

The Minister must cause a review to be conducted of:

the operation of the amendments made by this Act; and

any other related matter that the Minister specifies.

At least one of the persons conducting the review must be a person who is not otherwise appointed, employed or engaged by the Commonwealth.

The review must include a request for, and consideration of, submissions from members of the public.

The Minister must cause a written report of the review to be laid before each House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days of that House after 1 July 2019.

5 Review of prescribed matters

The Minister must cause a review to be conducted of matters relating to the powers and functions of the APVMA that are prescribed by the regulations.

The person conducting the review must give the Minister a report of the review in accordance with the regulations.

This section, and any regulations made for the purposes of this section, cease to have effect 5 years after the day this Act receives the Royal Assent.

6 Regulations for section 5

The Governor-General may make regulations prescribing matters:

required or permitted by section 5 to be prescribed; or

necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to section 5.

Without limiting subsection (1), regulations may deal with any or all of the following:

the terms of reference for the review;

when the review is to be conducted;

how the review is to be conducted;

the publication of the report of the review.

This section ceases to have effect 5 years after the day this Act receives the Royal Assent.