Western Australian Consolidated Regulations

POISONS REGULATIONS 1965 - REG 35C

35C .         Advertising of substances included in Schedule 3

        (1)         Subject to subregulations (2) and (3), a substance included in Schedule 3 shall not be advertised except in a bona fide professional or trade journal or other publication intended for circulation only within the medical, veterinary, dental or pharmaceutical professions or the wholesale and manufacturing drug trade.

        (2)         A substance both included in Schedule 3 and listed in Appendix H of SUSDP may be advertised by its brand name or its approved name.

        (3)         A substance included in Schedule 3 may be advertised if the substance is in a pregnancy testing kit.

        (4)         In this regulation —

        approved name , in relation to a poison, means the name for the poison that is listed in the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods, other than a brand name of the poison;

        Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods means the register of that name maintained under section 17 of the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 of the Commonwealth;

        brand name , in relation to a poison, means a name given to the poison by a manufacturer of it and listed in the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods, other than its approved name.

        [Regulation 35C inserted in Gazette 23 Sep 1983 p. 3803; amended in Gazette 2 Oct 1987 p. 3776; 19 Mar 1996 p. 1221; 27 Nov 1998 p. 6343-4.]