Emergency disclosure of chemical identities to registered medical practitioner
332 Emergency disclosure of chemical identities to registered medical practitioner
This section applies if a registered medical practitioner—
reasonably believes that knowing the chemical identity of an ingredient of a hazardous chemical may help to treat a patient; and
requests the manufacturer or importer of the hazardous chemical to give the registered medical practitioner the chemical identity of the ingredient; and
gives an undertaking to the manufacturer or importer that the chemical identity of the ingredient will be used only to help treat the patient; and
gives an undertaking to the manufacturer or importer to give the manufacturer or importer as soon as practicable a written statement about the need to obtain the chemical identity of the ingredient.
The manufacturer or importer of a hazardous chemical must give the registered medical practitioner the chemical identity of an ingredient of the hazardous chemical as soon as practicable.
Maximum penalty: tier E monetary penalty.
Note Strict liability applies to each physical element of each offence under this regulation, unless otherwise stated (see s 6A).
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