Microbeads (Prohibition) Act 2019
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Interpretation | ||
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1. In this Act— | ||
“Act of 1992” means the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992 ; | ||
“Agency” means the Environmental Protection Agency established by the Act of 1992; | ||
“authorised person” means— | ||
(a) an authorised person appointed under the Act of 1992, or | ||
(b) an officer of customs within the meaning of the Customs Act 2015 ; | ||
“body surface” means the skin, mucous membrane, hair, nails, teeth or gums of a person; | ||
“cleaning product” means any substance (including any detergent, fabric softener, conditioner, bleaching agent or solvent) that is intended to be used at any stage during— | ||
(a) the cleaning of any surface, article or material, or | ||
(b) the preparation for cleaning of any surface, article or material; | ||
“cosmetic product” means any substance or combination of substances produced for the purpose of cleaning, protecting or maintaining a body surface or changing the appearance or improving the condition of a body surface; | ||
“microbead” means a solid plastic particle that is— | ||
(a) not water soluble, | ||
(b) not more than 5 millimetres at its widest point, and | ||
(c) not less than one nanometre at its narrowest point; | ||
“Minister” means the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government; | ||
“place on the market” means— | ||
(a) sell, | ||
(b) offer or expose for sale, | ||
(c) invite the making by a person of an offer to purchase, | ||
(d) distribute free of charge, | ||
(e) import, | ||
(f) export, or | ||
(g) supply for any of those purposes (whether or not for profit); | ||
“plastic” means a synthetic polymer that— | ||
(a) can be moulded, extruded or physically manipulated into different shapes, and | ||
(b) that retains its final manufactured shape when used for the purpose for which it was manufactured; | ||
“record” includes, in addition to a record in writing— | ||
(a) a plan, chart, map, drawing, diagram or pictorial or graphic image, | ||
(b) a disc, tape, soundtrack or other device in which information, sounds or signals are embodied so as to be capable (with or without the aid of some other instrument) of being reproduced in legible or audible form, | ||
(c) a film, tape or other device in which visual images are embodied so as to be capable (with or without the aid of some other instrument) of being reproduced in visual form, and | ||
(d) a photograph. |