Chemicals (Amendment) Act 2010

Amendment of section 5 of Principal Act.

3.— Section 5 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) in subsection (2), by substituting the following paragraph for paragraph (a):

“(a) the manufacture, classification, labelling, packaging, export, import, placing on the market, testing, storage, transport, use or disposal of chemicals, or”,

(b) in subsection (3), by—

(i) substituting the following paragraph for paragraph (a):

“(a) contain such incidental, supplementary and consequential provisions as appear to the Minister to be necessary for the purposes of the regulations (including provisions repealing, amending or applying, with or without modification, other law, exclusive of this section, the Act of 1972 and the European Communities Act 2007 ),”,

(ii) deleting subparagraph (i) of paragraph (b), and

(iii) substituting “national authority or competent authority” for “national authority” in paragraph (d),

and

(c) by deleting subsection (7).