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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1990

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BILL SEEKS TO EXTEND CONTROL TO ALL PESTICIDES

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AGRICULTURAL PESTICIDES

THE GOVERNMENT PROPOSES TO AMEND THE ORDINANCE AND APPLY THE EXISTING CONTROL SYSTEM TO ALL PESTICIDES,

AND OTHER PURPOSES, ACTING SECRETARY AGRICULTURAL, DOMESTIC HEALTH AND WELFARE, MRS HELEN YU, SAID IN TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

FOR FOR

THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

MRS YU SAID THIS IS FOR THE PROTECTION OF OUR COMMUNITY,

MOVING THE

OF THE EXPLAINED

READING SECOND 1990,

THAT

AGRICULTURAL PESTICIDES THE AGRICULTURAL MRS YU (AMENDMENT) BILL

CONTROL OF PESTICIDES ORDINANCE, ENACTED IN 1977, PROVIDED FOR THE PESTICIDES FOR AGRICULTURAL APPLICATIONS ONLY.

HOWEVER, MRS YU POINTED OUT THAT ALL PESTICIDES CONTAINED TOXIC CHEMICALS WHICH, IF MISUSED, POSED A HEALTH OR ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD.

STRESSED THAT

THIS APPROACH WAS

BE

IN LINE WITH THE MRS YU RECOMMENDATION OF THE FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL ORGANISATION AND THE WORLD

SHOULD SCHEME A PESTICIDE CONTROL THAT HEALTH ORGANISATION

ALL SITUATIONS COMPREHENSIVE AND SHOULD CONTROL PESTICIDES USED IN

PUBLIC INCLUDING AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, FORESTRY, HOME GARDENING, HEALTH, HOUSEHOLD AND WAREHOUSE PEST CONTROL.

SAID THAT CONTROL WOULD ON THE AMENDMENT BILL, MRS YU IN THE FORM OF REGISTRATION AND A SYSTEM OF LICENSES AND PERMITS.

BE

"A NEW REGISTER OF PESTICIDES WILL BE INTRODUCED," MRS YU SAID.

READY-FOR-USE DOMESTIC PART I OF THE REGISTER WOULD CONTAIN PESTICIDES AND PART II WOULD CONTAIN ALL OTHER PESTICIDES.

SUCH A CLASSIFICATION WOULD GIVE A CLEARER INDICATION

A

PESTICIDE, CERTAIN TO USERS OF HAZARD POTENTIAL

FOR DIFFERENT A BASIS PROVIDE AND CONTROL ENFORCEMENT PROCESSING DIFFERENT LICENCES, SHE SAID.

OF THE FACILITATE

FEES

FOR

MANUFACTURE,

COLLECTIVELY

MANUFACTURE,

IMPORT,

BY IMPORT,

MEANS

MRS YU SAID IT WAS THE GOVERNMENT'S INTENTION TO

SALE AND SUPPLY OF LICENCES SALE, SUPPLY AND

CONTROL THE

OF

REGISTERED AND TO POSSESSION

PESTICIDES

CONTROL

THE

PESTICIDES INDIVIDUALLY BY MEANS OF PERMITS.

"TO

OF UNREGISTERED

NOR

SUCH

CATER FOR CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE IT IS NEITHER PRACTICAL

WHO HAS NECESSARY то IMPOSE A REQUIREMENT FOR A PERMIT, A PERSON

WILL BE EXEMPTED FROM POSSESSION OF

PESTICIDES UNREGISTERED

PESTICIDES THE REQUIREMENT IF HE OBTAINED POSSESSION OF PERMIT HOLDER WHO PASSED THE PESTICIDES TO HIM IN ACCORDANCE THE PERMIT CONDITIONS," SHE SAID.

FROM A

WITH

PESTS,

INERT INGREDIENTS

IN ADDITION TO THE ACTIVE INGREDIENTS WHICH KILLED THE MRS YU POINTED OUT THAT PESTICIDES MIGHT CONTAIN SUCH AS SOLVENTS AND ADDITIVES.

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