Mr BRUCE SCOTT (Minister for Veterans' Affairs)(10.32 a.m.) —by leave—I move:

(1) Schedule 2, page 61 (line 16), at the end of paragraph (1)(b), add:

   ; and (c) any fees received under subsection 110(1) of that Act.

The government intends to amend the Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Amendment Bill 1997 and the amendment has been circulated in the Main Committee. I would like to explain that this really is a minor technical amendment relating to the funding arrangements for the national industrial chemicals notification and assessment scheme.

The scheme receives its funding through the National Occupational Health and Safety Commission. As a result, schedule 2 to the Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Amendment Bill 1997 proposes to amend the National Occupational Health and Safety Commission Act 1985 to ensure that moneys collected from the registration charge can be applied for the purposes of the national industrial chemicals notification and assessment scheme.

Item 1 of schedule 2 inserts a new section 58A in the National Occupational Health and Safety Commission Act 1985 which provides that in addition to the amounts appropriated from time to time by the parliament for the purposes of the commission, there is also payable to the commission, out of consolidated revenue, amounts equal to any amount paid on account of registration charge and any registration charge actually paid.

The amendment which I am proposing will insert an additional paragraph into new section 58A of the National Occupational Health and Safety Commission Act 1985 to include in the moneys payable to the commission from consolidated revenue amounts equal to the fees paid under subsection 110(1) of the Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Act 1989. That is, fees paid to the Commonwealth in respect of the various application, notifications and statements set out in section 110.

This means that amounts equal to the registration charge and any other fees collected and paid into the consolidated revenue fund may be appropriated out of the fund to the commission for the purposes of the national industrial chemicals notification and assessment scheme.

Amendment agreed to.

Bill, as amended, agreed to.

Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER —The question is that the bill be reported to the House with an amendment.

Question resolved in the affirmative.