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and transitional provisions
Division 1—Amendments made by the Minamata Convention on Mercury (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2021
5.05 Amendments made by the Minamata Convention on Mercury (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2021
Part 5A—Application, saving and transitional provisions
5.1 Saving provisions relating to the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Legislation Amendment (Improvements) Regulations 2021
Schedule 1—Chemicals
Part 1—Reading this Schedule
Part 2—Chemical products defined in terms of a single active constituent
Part 3—Chemical products defined in terms of 2 or more active constituents
Schedules 2 to 4
Schedule 5—Infringement notices
Endnotes
Endnote 1—About the endnotes
Endnote 2—Abbreviation key
Endnote 3—Legislation history
Endnote 4—Amendment history

Part 1—Preliminary

1.1  Name of Regulations
  These Regulations are the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Administration) Regulations 1995.

1.3  Interpretation
 (1) In these Regulations:
Act means the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Administration) Act 1992.
active constituent has the same meaning as in the Agvet Code of the participating Territories.
agricultural chemical product has the same meaning as in the Agvet Code of the participating Territories.
Agvet Code of the participating Territories has the same meaning as in subsection 5(1) of the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Act 1994.
authorised officer has the meaning given by regulation 1.4.
CAS number or Chemical Abstracts Service number means the registry number:
 (a) assigned to the chemical by the Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America; and
 (b) published by the Service in the journal Chemical Abstracts.
chemical product has the same meaning as in the Agvet Code of the participating Territories.
Collector has the meaning given by subsection 8(1) of the Customs Act 1901.
controlled chemical has the meaning given by regulation 1.3A.
generic information has the meaning given by regulation 1.5.
import decision means a response, made under paragraph 2 of Article 10 of the Rotterdam Convention, providing a response in accordance with the requirements of paragraph 4 of that Article that consists of a final decision or an interim decision (within the respective meanings given by that paragraph):
 (a) consenting to import with or without specified conditions; or
 (b) not consenting to import.
IUPAC name means a name assigned to a chemical by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, set out in International Standard ISO 1750—1981: Pesticides and Agrochemicals—Common Names, published in Geneva by the International Standards Organisation in 1981.
mercury means elemental mercury (Hg(0), CAS Number 7439‑97‑6), and includes mixtures of mercury (including alloys of mercury) with a mercury concentration of at least 95% by weight, but does not include non‑Minamata mercury.
mercury‑added products means the products listed in Part 1 of Annex A to the Minamata Convention that contain mercury, but does not include the following:
 (a) products essential for civil protection and military uses;
 (b)