Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A function or power conferred on the APVMA under section 8A of the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Administration) Act about any matter arising in relation to the Code set out in the schedule to the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Act extends to any corresponding matter arising in relation to the applicable provisions of this jurisdiction, and the section applies accordingly.
(2) If the APVMA gives the regulator within the meaning of the Gene Technology Act 2001 a notice under section 8A(3) of the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Administration) Act (as that section applies by force of subsection (1) of this section), the regulator may give written advice to the APVMA about the application, reconsideration or issue.
(3) The advice must be given within the period stated in the notice.
(4) A reference in the Agvet Code of this jurisdiction to a provision of section 8A of the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Administration) Act has effect as if it were a reference to that provision as applying by force of subsection (1) of this section.
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This section does not appear in the Commonwealth Act but is consistent with amendments to Commonwealth Acts made by the Gene Technology (Consequential Amendments) Act 2000 (Cwlth), schedule 1, items 1 to 7.