South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated ActsThe Governor, acting on the advice of the advisory committee, may from time to
time make regulations, which may vary in their application according to time
and place or the destination of the article referred to in the regulation
prescribing all such things as are necessary or convenient to be prescribed
for the purposes of this Act, including, amongst other things, the purposes
following:
(1) The inspection and
analysis of drugs, chemicals, patent medicines, and proprietary articles;
(2) Regulating and
fixing the standards of drugs that may be sold, and of the several ingredients
of any such drug;
(3) Prescribing what
substances and what quantities thereof added to any drug shall render such
drug injurious to health within the meaning of this Act;
(4) Prohibiting the
sale, and providing for the destruction of such drugs and chemicals as are
injurious to health within the meaning of this Act, or not in accordance with
regulations under this Act;
(5) Publishing reports
of analyses of drugs made by the Government analyst, together with the names
and addresses of the dealers and the prices at which such drugs were sold;
(6) Regulating and
fixing the wording, lettering, and other contents of labels on any drugs,
including patent medicines and proprietary articles;
(7) The regulation and
restriction and conditions of the manufacture, sale or other disposal,
purchase, transport, storage, ownership, and possession of poisons and
controlled therapeutic substances and controlled therapeutic devices;
(7a) Providing for the
inspection and analysis of drugs before the selling thereof and prohibiting,
regulating, restricting or controlling the sale of drugs unless the same have
been so inspected and analysed;
(8) Fixing rates for
payment for samples of articles required to be purchased or procured under
section 41 of this Act;
(8a) Prescribing the
number of articles to be purchased as a sample for the purposes of section 42
of this Act and the manner in which those articles must be divided and dealt
with;
(9) Securing the
wholesomeness, cleanliness, freedom from contamination and adulteration of any
drug, and securing the cleanliness of receptacles, places, vehicles, and
vessels used for the manufacture, preparation, storing, packing, delivery, or
serving of any drug;
(10) Imposing
penalties not exceeding four hundred dollars for any breach of the
regulations;
(11a) The registration
of premises where drugs or any specified drugs are prepared or manufactured
for sale or sold unless such premises are registered under the Industrial Code
1967 , the Early Closing Act 1926 , or under any other provision of this
Act; the fees to be paid for such registration; and the payment and recovery
of such fees;
(12) Prohibiting the
use of specified substances or methods in the catching, feeding, or drugging
of animals shortly prior to death, such animals being intended for sale as
food;
(13) Prescribing the
form of advertisements relating to the sale of any drug, including patent
medicines and proprietary articles, and prohibiting any advertisements which
do not comply with the prescribed requirements. In this
paragraph "advertisement", without affecting the generality of the expression,
includes broadcast advertisement, price list, circular letter, pamphlet,
handbill, poster, placard, label, or other written or printed matter.