1 Name of Regulations
These Regulations are the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Administration) Amendment Regulations 2005 (No. 1).
2 Commencement
These Regulations commence on 1 July 2005.
3 Amendment of Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Administration) Regulations 1995
Schedule 1 amends the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Administration) Regulations 1995.
Schedule 1 Amendment
(regulation 3)
[1] Regulation 3.550
substitute
3.550 Export of chemical products — fees for certificates
(1) Subject to subregulation (2), the following fees are prescribed for subsection 69D (1) of the Act:
(a) $115 as the standard fee for a certificate;
(b) if the certificate requires technical or scientific assessment to be undertaken by the APVMA, a further $95 for the assessment.
(2) No fee is payable for a certificate (the subsequent certificate) if an applicant applies for the subsequent certificate on the same day when the applicant applied for another certificate (the original certificate), and the original and subsequent certificates are:
(a) the same in all respects; or
(b) the same in all respects except for one or more of the following:
(i) the addressee of the certificate;
(ii) the country to which the chemical product is to be exported;
(iii) the authority of the country to which the chemical product is to be exported.
(3) For subsection 69D (1) of the Act, the following fees are further prescribed if the applicant requires the APVMA to take a certificate (whether original or subsequent) to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade so that a consular act can be performed in relation to the certificate:
(a) for signing and affixing a seal to the certificate, the fee imposed under the Consular Fees Regulations 1990 for that consular act;
(b) for preparing and issuing an Apostille (being a certificate of the kind referred to in Article 3 of the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents), the fee imposed under the Consular Fees Regulations 1990 for that consular act.
Note 1 At the time of the commencement of this regulation, the fees imposed under the Consular Fees Regulations 1990 for the consular acts mentioned in paragraphs (3) (a) and (b) were $20 and $60, respectively.
Note 2 The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade will not sign and affix a seal to, or prepare and issue an Apostille for, an APVMA certificate unless the certificate has an original signature, stamp or seal.
