Hazardous Substances and New Organisms (New Organisms Forms and Information Requirements) Amendment Regulations 2010

2010/326 Hazardous Substances and New Organisms (New Organisms Forms and Information Requirements) Amendment Regulations 2010 Anand Satyanand, Governor-General Order in Council At Wellington this 20th day of September 2010 Present: His Excellency the Governor-General in Council Pursuant to section 140(1)(m) of the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council, makes the following regulations. Contents Page 1 Title 2 2 Commencement 2 3 Principal regulations amended 2 4 Applications generally 2 5 Revocations 2 6 Assessment of risks, costs, and benefits 2 7 Revocation 3 8 Schedule amended 3 1 http://www.legislation.govt.nz/pdflink.aspx?id=DLM385106 r 1 Hazardous Substances and New Organisms (New Organisms Forms and Information Requirements) Amendment Regulations 2010 2010/326 9 Hazardous Substances (Forms and Information) Regulations 2001 consequentially amended 3 8 Compliance orders 3 Regulations 1 Title These regulations are the Hazardous Substances and New Or ganisms (New Organisms Forms and Information Require ments) Amendment Regulations 2010. 2 Commencement These regulations come into force on the 28th day after the date of their notification in the Gazette. 3 Principal regulations amended These regulations amend the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms (New Organisms Forms and Information Require ments) Regulations 1998. 4 Applications generally Regulation 3(1) is amended by omitting “form set out in the Schedule” and substituting “approved form (as defined in sec tion 2(1) of the Act)”. 5 Revocations Regulations 4 to 8 are revoked. 6 Assessment of risks, costs, and benefits (1) Regulation 9(1) is amended by omitting “The identification and assessment of risk required in” and substituting “For the purpose of enabling risk to be identified and assessed,”. (2) Regulation 9(2) is amended by omitting “The identification and assessment of costs and benefits required in” and substi tuting “For the purpose of enabling costs and benefits to be identified and assessed,”. 2 http://www.legislation.govt.nz/pdflink.aspx?id=DLM255829 http://www.legislation.govt.nz/pdflink.aspx?id=DLM255829 http://www.legislation.govt.nz/pdflink.aspx?id=DLM255829 http://www.legislation.govt.nz/pdflink.aspx?id=DLM255843 http://www.legislation.govt.nz/pdflink.aspx?id=DLM255844 http://www.legislation.govt.nz/pdflink.aspx?id=DLM255849 http://www.legislation.govt.nz/pdflink.aspx?id=DLM255849 2010/326 Hazardous Substances and New Organisms (New Organisms Forms and Information Requirements) Amendment Regulations 2010 Explanatory note 7 Revocation Regulation 11 is revoked. 8 Schedule amended (1) The Schedule is amended by revoking forms 1 to 6. (2) Form 7 of the Schedule is amended by revoking paragraph 3 and substituting the following paragraph: “3 The period within which the action must be taken or cease is [specify period].” (3) Paragraph 4 of form 7 of the Schedule is amended by omitting “, not later than [specify last day for lodging of notice of ap peal]”. 9 Hazardous Substances (Forms and Information) Regulations 2001 consequentially amended (1) This regulation amends the Hazardous Substances (Forms and Information) Regulations 2001. (2) Regulation 8 is revoked and the following regulation substi tuted: “8 Compliance orders “(1) A compliance order under section 106 of the Act relating to hazardous substances must be in form 7 of the Schedule of the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms (New Organisms Forms and Information Requirements) Regulations 1998. “(2) This regulation is for the avoidance of doubt.” Rebecca Kitteridge, Clerk of the Executive Council. Explanatory note This note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general effect. These regulations, which come into force on the 28th day after the date of their notification in the Gazette, amend the Hazardous Sub 3 http://www.legislation.govt.nz/pdflink.aspx?id=DLM255851 http://www.legislation.govt.nz/pdflink.aspx?id=DLM255854 http://www.legislation.govt.nz/pdflink.aspx?id=DLM255876 http://www.legislation.govt.nz/pdflink.aspx?id=DLM255876 http://www.legislation.govt.nz/pdflink.aspx?id=DLM35326 http://www.legislation.govt.nz/pdflink.aspx?id=DLM35326 http://www.legislation.govt.nz/pdflink.aspx?id=DLM35345 http://www.legislation.govt.nz/pdflink.aspx?id=DLM255829 Explanatory note Hazardous Substances and New Organisms (New Organisms Forms and Information Requirements) Amendment Regulations 2010 2010/326 stances andNewOrganisms (NewOrganisms Forms and Information Requirements) Regulations 1998. These regulations revoke forms prescribed by the principal regula tions that will be replaced by forms approved by the Environmental Risk Management Authority, revoke the associated regulations, and update the form prescribed for a compliance order. The revoked forms are— • form 1 (application for approval to import for release or release from containment new organism): • form 2 (application for approval to import new organism into containment): • form 3 (application for approval to develop in containment genetically modified organism): • form 4 (application for approval to field test (including large scale fermentation) in containment new organism): • form 5 (application for approval to import or release from con tainment new organism in emergency): • form 6 (witness summons to Environmental Management Au thority hearing). Form 7 (compliance order) is updated to reflect amendments made to section 106 of the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996 in 2003. A consequential amendment is made to the Hazardous Substances (Forms and Information) Regulations 2001 to remove a reference to form 6, which is being replaced by an approved form. Issued under the authority of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989. Date of notification in Gazette: 23 September 2010. These regulations are administered by the Ministry for the Environment. 12 Wellington, New Zealand: Published under the authority of the New Zealand Government—2010 4 http://www.legislation.govt.nz/pdflink.aspx?id=DLM255829 http://www.legislation.govt.nz/pdflink.aspx?id=DLM255829 http://www.legislation.govt.nz/pdflink.aspx?id=DLM255855 http://www.legislation.govt.nz/pdflink.aspx?id=DLM255859 http://www.legislation.govt.nz/pdflink.aspx?id=DLM255863 http://www.legislation.govt.nz/pdflink.aspx?id=DLM255867 http://www.legislation.govt.nz/pdflink.aspx?id=DLM255871 http://www.legislation.govt.nz/pdflink.aspx?id=DLM255874 http://www.legislation.govt.nz/pdflink.aspx?id=DLM255876 http://www.legislation.govt.nz/pdflink.aspx?id=DLM384696 http://www.legislation.govt.nz/pdflink.aspx?id=DLM35326 http://www.legislation.govt.nz/pdflink.aspx?id=DLM35326 http://www.legislation.govt.nz/pdflink.aspx?id=DLM195097