Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2012A00147:clause:2_10
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2012A00147
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 2 cl 10
Character Range: 10612–12662

10  Material Safety Data Sheets—transitional provisions
(1) A regulation that:
 (a) was made for the purposes of paragraph (f) of the definition of Material Safety Data Sheet in subsection 5(1) of the Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Act 1989, as in force before the commencement of this Schedule; and
 (b) was in force immediately before that commencement;
has effect after that commencement as if it had been made for the purposes of paragraph (f) of the definition of Safety Data Sheet in subsection 5(1) of that Act as inserted by this Schedule.
(2) Guidelines that:
 (a) were approved for the purposes of the definition of Material Safety Data Sheet in subsection 5(1) of the Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Act 1989, as in force before the commencement of this Schedule; and
 (b) were in force immediately before that commencement;
have effect, after that commencement, as if they had been approved under paragraph (g) of the definition of Safety Data Sheet in subsection 5(1) of that Act as inserted by this Schedule.
(3) A regulation that:
 (a) prescribed a form for the purposes of clause 12 of Part B of the Schedule to the Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Act 1989, as in force before the commencement of this Schedule; and
 (b) was in force immediately before that commencement;
has effect after that commencement as if a reference to the proposed Material Data Safety Sheet were a reference to the proposed Safety Data Sheet.
(4) A regulation that:
 (a) was made under the Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Act 1989, as in force immediately before the commencement of this Schedule; and
 (b) was in force immediately before that commencement; and
 (c) contained a reference to a Material Safety Data Sheet;
has effect after that commencement as if the reference to a Material Safety Data Sheet were a reference to a Safety Data Sheet.

[Minister's second reading speech made in—
House of Representatives on 12 September 2012
Senate on 19 September 2012]

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