Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

THERAPEUTIC GOODS ACT 1989 - SECT 52A

                   In this Part, unless the contrary intention appears:

"Committee" means the National Drugs and Poisons Schedule Committee referred to in section 52B.

"current Poisons Standard" means:

                     (a)  if no document has been prepared under paragraph 52D(2)(b)--the first Poisons Standard; or

                     (b)  otherwise--the document last prepared under that paragraph.

"first Poisons Standard means the latest edition at the commencement of this Part of the document known as the Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Drugs and Poisons" published by the Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council.

"scheduling" , in relation to a substance, means determining the schedule or schedules to the current Poisons Standard in which the name or a description of the substance is to be included.

"substance" means any medicine or poison.