Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS (NOTIFICATION AND ASSESSMENT) ACT 1989 - SECT 50B

             (1)  The Director may recommend to the Minister that one or more industrial chemicals be declared priority existing chemicals.

             (2)  The Director may make a recommendation only if he or she has reasonable grounds for believing that the manufacture, handling, storage, use or disposal of each industrial chemical covered by the recommendation gives rise, or may give rise, to a risk of adverse health effects or adverse environmental effects.

             (3)  A recommendation for a declaration must:

                     (a)  specify whether the declaration should apply to the chemical generally or only when it is:

                              (i)  used for one or more specified purposes; or

                             (ii)  manufactured, handled, stored or used in a specified geographical area or in specified circumstances; and

                     (b)  identify the matters that should be taken into account in preparing the assessment report on the chemical and the information that should accompany any application for an assessment of the chemical under Subdivision D.

             (4)  If the Director makes a single recommendation for the declaration of 2 or more industrial chemicals as priority existing chemicals, the Director must also recommend whether the chemicals should be assessed together under Subdivision D.