New South Wales Consolidated Acts

STOCK MEDICINES ACT 1989 - SECT 41

41 Offences relating to sale of stock medicines

(1) A person must not:

(a) sell an unregistered stock medicine, or

(b) sell a stock medicine under the name of a registered stock medicine, if the person knows the stock medicine sold does not conform with the registered prescription or composition of the registered stock medicine, or

(c) sell a stock medicine that does not comply with a standard prescribed for the stock medicine or for stock medicines of the class to which it belongs, or

(d) sell a registered stock medicine in respect of which any claim or statement as to its efficacy for a use other than a use required or permitted to be specified on its package (or label) by or under the Agvet Code has been made by the person or with the person’s consent.

Maximum penalty: 200 penalty units or, for an offence by a corporation, 400 penalty units.

(2) Subsection (1) (a) does not apply to the sale of a stock medicine if the stock medicine was prescribed or supplied by a veterinary practitioner, in the course of the practice of his or her profession, to deal with a particular condition of an animal or animals under his or her care.