Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Act 1994

This Division provides for reconsideration of approvals and registrations.

The APVMA may invite proposals for reconsideration (section 30), and the APVMA may reconsider an approval or registration at any time (section 31).

Before reconsidering an approval or registration, the APVMA must prepare a work plan (section 31), notify the holder and invite the holder to make a written submission on the reconsideration. The holder will also be required to give the APVMA information relevant to the reconsideration (section 32).

The APVMA may inform any person that the APVMA proposes to reconsider, or is reconsidering, the approval or registration and invite written submissions (section 32).

The APVMA may require the holder to conduct trials or experiments or provide information or samples for the purposes of the reconsideration (section 33).

The APVMA must affirm the approval or registration if it is satisfied that the constituent or product concerned meets specified criteria (section 34).

The APVMA must vary the relevant particulars or conditions of the approval or registration if the APVMA is satisfied that they can be varied in such a way as to allow the approval or registration to be affirmed (section 34A).

If the APVMA does not affirm the approval or registration, it must suspend or cancel the approval or registration (section 34AA).

The APVMA must give notice of what it proposes to do before it:

varies the relevant particulars or conditions; or

suspends or cancels the approval or registration (section 34AB).

If the APVMA affirms the approval or registration, it must notify the holder and publish a notice in the Gazette (section 34AC).

The APVMA may reconsider the approval of a label to determine whether the instructions on the label are adequate (section 34AF).