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Agricultural Chemical Products) Standard 2022 and is made under section 6E of the Code.

      3 Commencement
        This Instrument commences on the day after the day it is registered.

      4 Definitions
      (1)    Unless the contrary intention appears:

          (a)   words and expressions that are used in the Code have the same meaning in this Instrument; and

          (b)   words and expressions that are used in the Regulations have the same meaning in this Instrument.

      (2)    In this Instrument:

      Active constituent has the meaning given in section 3 of the Code and for the purpose of this Instrument means the constituent, or one of the constituents, of an agricultural chemical product that is, or are together, responsible for the biological or other effect identifying the product as an agricultural chemical product.

      Code means the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code scheduled to the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Act 1994.

      Declared content, declared concentration, nominal content or nominal concentration all refer to the expected, mean, or target concentration of a constituent stated or referred to in the appropriate section of an application form for registration or variation of an agricultural chemical product by an applicant for a constituent in their product. In addition, for active constituents or constituents included in a Schedule of the Poisons Standard, declared content refers to the concentration listed in a constituent statement on a product label.

      Heterogeneous formulation means formulation types with a higher degree of spatial variability of particle size and chemical composition, as determined by the APVMA from time to time. It includes as examples, but is not limited to, the water dispersible granule (WG) and granular (GR) formulation types.

      Homogeneous formulation means formulation types with a lower degree of spatial variability of particle size and chemical composition, as determined by the APVMA from time to time. It includes as examples, but is not limited to, the soluble concentrate (SL) and emulsifiable concentrate (EC) formulation types.

      Non-active constituent means any constituent of a registered chemical product other than an active constituent. Non-active constituents are also commonly referred to as excipients.

      Poisons Standard means the legislative instrument published by the Therapeutic Goods Administration and containing the decisions made by the Scheduling Delegate regarding the classification of medicines and chemicals into Schedules for inclusion in relevant legislation of the states and territories. It is also known as the Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Medicines and Poisons.

      Register has the meaning given in the Code.

      Regulations means the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Regulations 1995.

      Relevant particulars has the meaning given in the Code. For the purposes of this Instrument, relevant particulars generally means the concentration of a constituent in an agricultural chemical product.

      Validated analytical method means an analytical