Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) The Executive
Director, Public Health, may, at his own instance or at the request of a local
government, cause to be examined for the purpose of ascertaining its
composition and properties any drug or appliance which is advertised,
exhibited or offered for sale, and shall compare the results of such an
examination with any advertisement which relates to that drug or appliance,
and with the price at which it is sold, and shall prepare and forward to the
Minister a report thereon, and that report may include any comment which the
Executive Director, Public Health, thinks desirable in the public interest.
(2) The Executive
Director, Public Health, may, with the approval of the Minister, cause a
report prepared and forwarded under subsection (1) to be published
in —
(a) the
Gazette ; and
(b) any
newspaper or public print which circulates within the State,
and to be distributed
among the public in any other way, and no action shall lie in respect of that
publication.
(3) The proprietor or
manager of a newspaper or public print may republish any report which has been
published by the Executive Director, Public Health, under subsection (2),
and no action shall lie against that proprietor or manager in respect of that
republication.
(4) In this
section —
appliance includes any instrument or contrivance
which is advertised, exhibited or offered for sale as of use for curative
purposes.
[Section 226 inserted by No. 26 of 1985
s. 7; amended by No. 14 of 1996 s. 4.]