Therapeutic Goods (Restricted Medicines) Specification 2021

I, Jane Cook, as delegate of the Minister for Health and Aged Care, make the following specification.

Dated 23 September 2021

Dr Jane Cook

First Assistant Secretary
Medicines Regulation Division
Health Products Regulation Group
Department of Health

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Definitions

5  Restricted medicines

6  Repeals

Schedule 1—Restricted medicines

Schedule 2—Repeals

Restricted Medicine Specification 2011

1  Name

  This instrument is the Therapeutic Goods (Restricted Medicines) Specification 2021.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under subsections 3(2A) and 3(2B) of the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989.

4  Definitions

Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in subsection 3(1) of the Act, including the following:

(a) current Poisons Standard;

(b) medicine;

(c) restricted medicine.

  In this instrument:

Act means the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989.

Regulations means the Therapeutic Goods Regulations 1990.

5  Restricted medicines

 (1) For subsection 3(2A) of the Act, a medicine mentioned in an item in the table in Schedule 1 is specified for the purposes of paragraph (a) of the definition of restricted medicine in subsection 3(1) of the Act.

 (2) For subsection 3(2B) of the Act, a medicine included in a class of medicine mentioned in an item in the table in Schedule 1 is specified for the purposes of paragraph (b) of the definition of restricted medicine in subsection 3(1) of the Act.

6  Repeals

  Each instrument that is specified in Schedule 2 is repealed as set out in the applicable items in that Schedule.

Schedule 1—Restricted medicines

Note: See section 5.

Schedule 2—Repeals

Note: See section 6.

Restricted Medicine Specification 2011

1  The whole of the instrument

Repeal the instrument.