Source: https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2015B00101
Timestamp: 2019-08-21 23:21:05
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C2015B00101
Part 1—Reporting requirements 3
Gene Technology Act 2000 3
Part 2—Inadvertent dealings 5
Gene Technology Act 2000 5
Part 3—Public notification of risk assessment etc. 6
Gene Technology Act 2000 6
Part 4—GM products 7
Gene Technology Act 2000 7
Part 5—Restrictions on licence variations 9
Gene Technology Act 2000 9
Part 6—Technical amendments 10
Gene Technology Act 2000 10
This Act may be cited as the Gene Technology Amendment Act 2015.
Part 1—Reporting requirements
1 After subsection 136(1)
(1A) The report must include information about the following:
(a) GMO licences issued during the financial year;
(b) any breaches of conditions of a GMO licence that have come to the Regulator’s attention during the financial year;
(c) emergency dealing determinations made by the Minister during the financial year;
(d) any breaches of conditions of an emergency dealing determination that have come to the Regulator’s attention during the financial year;
(e) auditing and monitoring of dealings with GMOs under this Act by the Regulator or an inspector during the financial year.
2 Section 136A
(1) If, when this item commences:
(a) the Regulator has given a report to the Minister under subsection 136A(1) of the old Act; and
(b) the Minister has not yet caused a copy of the report to be laid before each House of the Parliament in accordance with subsection 136A(3) of the old Act;
subsection 136A(3) of the old Act continues to have effect, in relation to the report, as if that subsection had not been repealed.
old Act means the Gene Technology Act 2000, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item.
Part 2—Inadvertent dealings
4 Paragraph 46A(a)
(a) the dealings proposed to be authorised by the licence are limited to one or more of the following for purposes relating to disposing of a GMO:
(v) any other dealings to be undertaken for the purposes of, or for purposes relating to, disposing of the GMO; and
5 Paragraph 49(a)
The amendments of the Gene Technology Act 2000 made by this Part apply in relation to:
(a) an inadvertent dealings application made on or after the commencement of this item; and
(b) an inadvertent dealings application made, but not decided, before that commencement.
Part 3—Public notification of risk assessment etc.
7 Paragraph 52(1)(b)
(b) in one or more newspapers that the Regulator considers appropriate, having regard to the geographic area in which the dealings proposed to be authorised by the licence may occur; and
8 Paragraph 52(1)(c)
Part 4—GM products
9 Section 10(1) (definition of Record)
Omit “and GM Product”.
11 Paragraph 17(6)(b)
12 Section 117 (paragraph relating to Division 6)
Omit “GMOs and GM products”, substitute “GMO dealings”.
13 Division 6 of Part 9 (heading)
Division 6—Record of GMO Dealings
14 Section 138 (heading)
138 Record of GMO Dealings
15 Subsection 138(1)
16 Subsection 138(2)
Omit “or GM products”.
17 Subsection 138(5)
18 Subsection 138(8)
Omit “(4), (5)”, substitute “(3A), (4)”.
After this item commences, the Regulator may remove information from the Record of GMO Dealings if the information:
(a) was on the Record as at that commencement; and
(b) was included on the Record because the information involved GM products.
Part 5—Restrictions on licence variations
20 Subsection 71(2B)
(2B) If an application has been made for variation of a licence, the Regulator must not vary the licence unless the Regulator is satisfied that the risks posed by the dealings proposed to be authorised by the licence as varied are covered by:
(a) the risk assessment and the risk management plan in respect of the original application for the licence; or
(b) the risk assessment and the risk management plan in respect of an application for another licence, but only if that other licence was issued.
The amendment of the Gene Technology Act 2000 made by this Part applies in relation to:
(a) an application for variation of a licence made on or after the commencement of this item; and
(b) an application for variation of a licence made, but not decided, before that commencement.
22 Paragraph 30(a)
(a) whether a GMO licence is issued or refused in relation to a particular application; or
23 Subsection 74(3)
(3) Before the Governor‑General makes regulations declaring a dealing with a GMO to be a notifiable low risk dealing, the Regulator must consider: