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Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Amendment Bill 2012

Introduced into the House of Representatives on 12 September 2012
Portfolio: Health and Aging

Purpose of the bill

1.2        This bill amends the Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Act 1989 (ICNA Act) to:

• change the thresholds and tier structure for annual registration charges to make the annual registration charges more equitable;
• introduce an application fee for businesses seeking authorisation from NICNAS to import or export certain hazardous industrial chemicals under the Rotterdam Convention;
• remove an obsolete provision which enables a fee to be levied for an application process that no longer exists; and
• makes minor, technical amendments to ensure that terminology in the ICNA Act is consistent with the new work health and safety laws that commenced in the Commonwealth, and various state and territory jurisdictions, on 1 January 2012.

1.3        The statement of compatibility states that the bill does not engage any human rights.

1.4        The committee has no substantive comments in relation to this bill as it does not appear to raise any human rights concerns and the statement of compatibility appears adequate.

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