New South Wales Consolidated Acts

STOCK MEDICINES ACT 1989 - SECT 43

43 Offences relating to advertising

(1) A person must not contravene any prohibition or requirement made by the regulations for the purposes of this section and relating to:

(a) the advertising of stock medicines or their uses, or

(b) claims, statements or representations relating to the use of stock medicines, or

(c) the dissemination of information concerning stock medicines or their uses.

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

(2) A person must not make, or cause to be made, to any other person any claim or statement, or publish, circulate or distribute (or cause to be published, circulated or distributed) any claim or statement:

(a) as to the efficacy of a registered stock medicine for a use other than a use for which the stock medicine is registered, or

(b) with respect to any stock medicine, if the person knows the claim or statement is false or misleading in any material particular.

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

(3) The Director-General may, on the recommendation of the Board, cancel the registration of a registered stock medicine if the last applicant for registration or renewal of registration of the stock medicine is convicted of an offence under this section in respect of the stock medicine.