STATUTORY RULES.

1959. No. 14.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE THERAPEUTIC SUBSTANCES ACT 1953.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Therapeutic Substances Act 1953.

Dated this 28th day of February, 1959.

W. J. Slim

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(Sgd.) Donald A. Cameron

Minister of State for Health.

Amendments of the Therapeutic Substances Regulations.†

1. After regulation 11 of the Therapeutic Substances Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Establishment of the National Biological Standards Laboratory.

“11a.—For the purposes of these Regulations, the Minister may establish a laboratory to be known as the National Biological Standards Laboratory.”.

Examination, &c., and certificates of official analysts.

2. Regulation 14 of the Therapeutic Substances Regulations is amended by inserting in sub-regulation (1.), after the words “these Regulations”, the words “or at the National Biological Standards Laboratory established under regulation 11a of these Regulations”.

Review of examination, &c., of official analyst.

3. Regulation 15 of the Therapeutic Substances Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (2.) all the words after the word “agreement,” and inserting in their stead the words “to an analyst nominated by the Director-General.”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 5th March, 1959.

† Statutory Rules 1956, No. 4, as amended by Statutory Rules 1956, No. 113; 1957, No. 64; and 1958, No. 21.

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

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