Therapeutic Goods (Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code) Amendment (2022 Measures No. 1) Instrument 2022

I, John Skerritt, as delegate of the Minister for Health and Aged Care, make the following instrument.

Dated 14 December 2022

Adjunct Professor John Skerritt

Deputy Secretary

Health Products Regulation Group

Department of Health and Aged Care

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Therapeutic Goods (Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code) Instrument 2021

Schedule 2—Repeals

Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code) Instrument (No. 5) 2021

1  Name

  This instrument is the Therapeutic Goods (Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code) Amendment (2022 Measures No. 1) Instrument 2022.

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Note:  This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 section 42BAA of the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Therapeutic Goods (Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code) Instrument 2021

1  Paragraph 6(1)(c) (including the note) of Schedule 1

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

 (c) made in accordance with the Therapeutic Goods (Restricted Representations—COVID-19 Vaccines) Permission 2022 made under section 42DK of the Act, as in force or existing on 20 December 2022.

Note: The Therapeutic Goods (Restricted Representations—COVID-19 Vaccines) Permission 2022 is published on the Department’s website at www.tga.gov.au.

2  Application of amendments

The amendments made by this instrument apply in relation to an advertisement occurring after the commencement of this instrument.

Schedule 2—Repeals

Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code) Instrument (No. 5) 2021

1  The whole of the instrument

Repeal the instrument.