Hazardous Chemicals Regulations, 1999.

These Regulations make provision for the control of manufacture, trade in, importation of, and handling of hazardous chemicals. They provide for the registration of hazardous chemicals and the licensing of persons wishing to carry out such activities. An application for the Registration of a Hazardous Chemicals in accordance with Section 10 of the Act shall be made in duplicate in the form prescribed in schedule 1. Decisions on registration and licensing shall be taken by the Chemicals and Pesticides Control and Management Board. It may take a decision to restrict the use and handling of a chemical or to ban a chemical. No person shall import, manufacture, sell or distribute a chemical in group I of schedule 3 without the prior authorisation of the Board and no person shall import, manufacture, sell or distribute a chemical in groups ii and iii of schedule 3, unless (s)he obtains a licence from the Board. The Regulations also provide rules for the labelling, packaging and transportation of chemicals