Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Act 1994

The regulations may make provision for and in relation to either or both of the following:

extending the protection period in relation to protected information;

ending such an extension.

An application for an extension is not required.

Instead, an extension of a protection period must not occur unless, at least 3 years before that protection period (including that period as previously extended) will end, an application that satisfies the following is lodged:

the application is under a provision of this Part prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph;

the application satisfies the requirements prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph.

The total length of all extensions of a protection period, in relation to particular protected information, must not be more than 5 years.

In relation to an extension of a protection period, or ending such an extension, the regulations may confer a power to make a decision of an administrative character on the APVMA.