Industrial and Consumer Chemicals (Management and Control) Act, 2003 (No. 3 of 2003).

This Act introduces measures for the control of production, importation, exportation, transportation, storage, handling and placing on the market of industrial or consumer chemicals or chemical products and provides for the carrying out of such control.
Sections 3 to 10 provide for administration of this Act and establish for this purpose a Technical Committee and define the functions of the Government Chemist Laboratory Agency, the Chief Government Chemist, the Ministerial Advisory Board for the Government Chemist Laboratory Agency and the Emergency Response Committee. The Chief Government Chemist shall act as the Registrar of Chemicals, the functions of which are set out in section 10. Sections 11 to 47 contain provisions relative to the control of the production, importation, transportation, exportation, storage, handling, placing on the market and disposal of chemicals. Measures of control include registration of chemicals, certification, use restrictions, inspection, packing labelling requirements and precautionary measures. Other provisions of this Act concern financial arrangements, liability and regulation making powers of the Minister. Offences are defines and penalties prescribed.