Commonwealth Numbered Acts

INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS (NOTIFICATION AND ASSESSMENT) ACT 1989 No. 8 of 1990 - SECT 3

3. The object of this Act is to provide for a national system of notification
and assessment of industrial chemicals for the purposes of:

   (a)  aiding in the protection of the Australian people and the environment
        by finding out the risks to occupational health and safety, to public
        health and to the environment that could be associated with the
        importation, manufacture or use of the chemicals; and

   (b)  providing information, and making recommendations, about the chemicals
        to Commonwealth, State and Territory bodies with responsibilities for
        the regulation of industrial chemicals; and

   (c)  giving effect to Australia's obligations under international
        agreements relating to the regulation of chemicals; and

   (d)  collecting statistics in relation to the chemicals; being a system
        under which information about the properties and effects of the
        chemicals is obtained from importers and manufacturers of the
        chemicals.