Commonwealth Numbered Acts

AGRICULTURAL AND VETERINARY CHEMICALS ACT 1994 No. 36 of 1994 - LONG TITLE

An Act to make a law for the government of certain Territories in
elation to the evaluation, registration and control of agricultural
and veterinary chemical products, and for related purposes 

RECOGNISING:

   (a)  that the protection of the health and safety of human beings, animals
        and the environment is essential to the well-being of society and can
        be enhanced by putting in place a system to regulate agricultural
        chemical products and veterinary chemical products; and

   (b)  that the principle of ecologically sustainable development requires a
        regulatory system that is designed to ensure that the use of such
        products today will not impair the prospects of future generations;
        and

   (c)  that the furthering of trade and commerce between Australia and places
        outside Australia, and the present and future economic viability and
        competitiveness of primary industry and of a domestic industry for
        manufacturing and formulating such products, are essential for the
        well-being of the economy and require a system for regulating such
        products that is cost-effective, efficient, predictable, adaptive and
        responsive; and

   (d)  that it is desirable to establish a regulatory system that is open and
        accountable and gives opportunity for public input with respect to the
        regulation of such products; and

   (e)  that the system should, so far as practicable, be uniform throughout
        Australia; and

   (f)  that uniformity could best be achieved by the enactment of legislation
        by the Parliament of the Commonwealth as a law for the government of
        the Australian Capital Territory and the adoption of that legislation
        by the Parliaments and legislatures of the States and the Northern
        Territory: