Victorian Numbered Regulations

GENE TECHNOLOGY REGULATIONS 2011 (SR NO 91 OF 2011)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Objective  
   1A.     Authorising provision  
   2.      Commencement  
   2A.     Revocations  
   3.      Definitions  
   3A.     Numbering  
   3B.     Notes  

   PART 2--INTERPRETATION AND GENERAL OPERATION

   4.      Techniques not constituting gene technology  
   5.      Organisms that are not genetically modified organisms  

   PART 2A--GENE TECHNOLOGY REGULATOR

   5A.     Functions of the Regulator  

   PART 3--DEALINGS WITH GMOS

           Division 1--Licensing system

   6.      Dealings exempt from licensing  
   7.      Application for licence—prescribed fee  
   8.      Time limit for deciding an application  
   9.      Prescribed authorities  
   9A.     Risks posed by dealings proposed to be authorised by licence  
   10.     Risk assessment—matters to be taken into account  
   11.     Prescribed conditions of licence  
   11A.    Time limit for deciding variation application  

           Division 2--Notifiable low risk dealings

   12.     Notifiable low risk dealings  
   13.     Requirements for undertaking notifiable low risk dealings  
   13A.    Time limits for stopping notifiable low risk dealings  
   13B.    Requirements for Institutional Biosafety Committees about records of assessments of notifiable low risk dealing proposals  
   13C.    Information to be kept or given to the Regulator by persons or accredited organisations  

           Division 3--Certification and accreditation

   14.     Regulator to decide certification application within 90 days  
   15.     Application for certification—failure to provide section 85 information  
   16.     Regulator to decide accreditation application within 90 days  
   17.     Application for accreditation—failure to provide section 93 information  

   PART 4--GENE TECHNOLOGY TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

           Division 1--Conditions of appointment

   18.     GTTAC members and advisers—term of appointment  
   19.     GTTAC members and advisers—resignation  
   20.     GTTAC members—disclosure of interests  
   21.     GTTAC members and advisers—termination of appointment  
   22.     GTTAC members—leave of absence  
   23.     Expert advisers—disclosure of interests  

           Division 2--Committee procedures

   24.     Committee procedures generally  
   25.     Committee meetings  
   26.     Presiding member  
   27.     Quorum  
   28.     Voting  
   29.     Records and Reports  

           Division 3--Subcommittees

   30.     Operation of subcommittees  

   PART 5--ETHICS AND COMMUNITY COMMITTEE

   31.     Ethics and Community Committee—conditions of appointment  
   32.     Ethics and Community Committee—Committee procedures  
   33.     Ethics and Community Committee—operation of subcommittees  

   PART 7--MISCELLANEOUS

   PART 8--TRANSITIONAL
           SCHEDULE 1A
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
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