New South Wales Consolidated Acts

AGRICULTURAL AND VETERINARY CHEMICALS (NEW SOUTH WALES) ACT 1994 - SECT 36

36 Regulations relating to savings and transitional provisions

(1) The regulations may contain provisions of a savings or transitional nature consequent on the enactment of this Act.

(2) In particular, the regulations may make provision for or with respect to:

(a) treating the registration or approval of a chemical product or constituent of a chemical product under the Agvet Code to be registration or approval of the chemical product or constituent for the purposes of any of the provisions of the Stock Medicines Act 1989 , or

(b) treating a label approved under the Agvet Code to be a label registered under or required or permitted by any of the provisions of the Stock Medicines Act 1989 , or

(c) suspending the operation of provisions of the Stock Medicines Act 1989 specified in the regulations to the extent (if any) so specified.

(3) Any such savings or transitional provision may, if the regulations so provide, take effect from the commencement of this section or a later date.

(4) To the extent to which any such savings or transitional provision takes effect from a date that is earlier than the date of its publication in the Gazette, the provision does not operate so as:

(a) to affect, in a manner prejudicial to any person (other than this State or an authority of this State), the rights of that person existing before the date of its publication, or

(b) to impose liabilities on any person (other than this State or an authority of this State) in respect of anything done or omitted to be done before the date of its publication.

(5) In this section, "chemical product", "constituent" and "label" have the same meanings as in the Agvet Code.