Queensland Consolidated Regulations

GENE TECHNOLOGY REGULATION 2002

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Contents

           Part 1--Preliminary

   1.      Short title
   2.      Commencement
   3.      Definitions
   3A.     Numbering
   3B.     Notes

           Part 2--Interpretation and general operation

   4.      Techniques not constituting gene technology
   5.      Organisms that are not genetically modified organisms
           Part 3 Dealings with GMO
           S

           Division 1--Licensing system

   6.      Dealings exempt from licensing
   7.      Application for licence—prescribed fee
   8.      Time limit for deciding an application
   9.      Prescribed authorities
   9A.     Risks posed by dealings proposed to be authorised by licence
   10.     Risk assessment—matters to be taken into account
   11.     Prescribed conditions of licence
   11A.    Time limit for deciding variation application

           Division 2--Notifiable low risk dealings

   12.     Notifiable low risk dealings
   13.     Requirements for undertaking notifiable low risk dealings
   13A.    Requirements for notifying regulator of notifiable low risk dealings

           Division 3--Certification and accreditation

   14.     Regulator to decide certification application within 90 days
   15.     Application for certification—failure to provide section 85 information
   16.     Regulator to decide accreditation application within 90 days
   17.     Application for accreditation—failure to provide section 93 information

           Part 4--Gene technology technical advisory committee

           Division 1--Conditions of appointment

   18.     GTTAC members and advisers—term of appointment
   19.     GTTAC members and advisers—resignation
   20.     GTTAC members—disclosure of interests
   21.     GTTAC members and advisers—termination of appointment
   22.     GTTAC members—leave of absence
   23.     Expert advisers—disclosure of interests

           Division 2--Committee procedures

   24.     Committee procedures generally
   25.     Committee meetings
   26.     Presiding member
   27.     Quorum
   28.     Voting
   29.     Records and reports

           Division 3--Subcommittees

   30.     Operation of subcommittees

           Part 5--Ethics and community committee

   31.     Ethics and community committee—conditions of appointment
   32.     Ethics and community committee—consultative committee procedures
   33.     Ethics and community committee—operation of subcommittees

           Part 7--Miscellaneous

   37.     Reviewable State decisions
   38.     Review of decisions
   39.     Record of GMO and GM product dealings
   40.     Inspector identity card

           Part 8--Transitional provision for Gene Technology Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2007

   41.     Transitional provision for notifiable low risk dealings carried on by same person
           SCHEDULE 1A TECHNIQUES THAT ARE NOT GENE TECHNOLOGY
           SCHEDULE 1 ORGANISMS THAT ARE NOT GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS
           SCHEDULE
           2
           DEALINGS EXEMPT FROM LICENSING
           SCHEDULE
           3
           NOTIFIABLE LOW RISK DEALINGS IN RELATION TO A GMO

           Part 1--Notifiable low risk dealings suitable for physical containment level 1
           1.1. Kinds of dealings

           Part 2--Notifiable low risk dealings suitable for physical containment level 2
           2.1. Kinds of dealings

           Part 3--Dealings that are not notifiable low risk dealings
           3.1. Kinds of dealings
           SCHEDULE 5 DICTIONARY
           Endnotes