Industrial Chemicals (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act 2019 (13 of 2019)

Schedule 2   Application, savings and transitional provisions

Part 5   Assessment certificates etc.

Division 3   Low volume permits

19   Low volume permits issued under old law

(1) This item applies in relation to a low volume permit in respect of an industrial chemical that is in force under the old law immediately before 1 July 2020.

(2) For the purposes of the new law, subject to this Part and any modifications prescribed by the transitional rules:

(a) the low volume permit is taken, on and after 1 July 2020, to be an assessment certificate issued for the industrial chemical under the new law; and

(b) the person who was, immediately before 1 July 2020, the holder of the low volume permit is taken to be the holder of the assessment certificate under the new law; and

(c) the terms of the low volume permit under the old law are taken to be the terms of the assessment certificate under the new law; and

(d) any conditions the low volume permit is subject to under subsection 21W(3) of the old law are taken to be conditions to which the assessment certificate is subject under paragraph 38(1)(c) of the new law; and

(e) the condition the low volume permit is subject to under subsection 21W(1) of the old law is taken to be a specific requirement to provide information to the Executive Director under paragraph 38(1)(d) of the new law; and

(f) section 39 of the new law applies in relation to the assessment certificate as if that section expressly limited the period for which the assessment certificate is in force to the remaining period for which the permit would have been in force under section 21V of the old law.