Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Act 1989.

This Act establishes a national system of notification and assessment of industrial chemicals. In the system information about the properties and effects of chemicals is collected from importers and manufactures of the chemicals. Section 4 provides for additional operation of the Act. Section 6 provides a meaning of chemicals industrial chemical agricultural chemical and veterinary chemical product .
The 200 sections are divided into 7 Parts: Preliminary (1); Australian Inventory of Chemical Substances (2); Notification and Assessment of Industrial Chemicals (3); Registration of introducers of industrial chemicals Division (3A); Enforcement (4); Administration (5); Miscellaneous (6).
Part III is divided into 11 Divisions: New Industrial Chemicals to be assessed (1); Commercial evaluation permit system (1A); Low volume chemicals permit system (1B); Notification procedures before assessment (2); Assessment and report (3); -Extension of original assessment certificates (3A); Effect and other notification schemes (4); Priority existing chemicals (5); Secondary notification after assessment (6); Assessment certificates (7); Confidentiality (8); Access to assessment information (9). The Inventory must be kept in the prescribed form by the Director of Chemicals Notification appointed under Section 90 (sect. 11).
The Inventory consists of a confidential and a non-confidential section (sect. 12). Introduction of a new industrial chemical for purposes other than commercial evaluation requires an assessment certificate. The Act provides for a Director, appointed by the Governor-General, to administer the Act and for inspectors to implement the Act with search and seizure powers. The Director is required to keep the Australian Inventory of Chemical Substances. The Act requires an assessment certificate before a new industrial chemical may be introduced. The Act provides for notification procedures before and after assessment and sets out the procedure for the assessment and report. The effect of other notification schemes is delineated. A review procedure is provided.
Schedule: Matters To Be Dealt With In Notification Statement About.
The following provision commences on the day on which the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade, done at Rotterdam on 10 September 1998, enters into force for Australia: “section 100E of the Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Act 1989, as inserted by item 1, applies in relation to provisions of laws, where those provisions come into force after the commencement of that item.