The objects of this Act are to do the following, so far as the Constitution permits: (a) provide for the establishment and maintenance of a national system of controls relating to the quality, safety, efficacy and timely availability of therapeutic goods that are used in Australia, whether produced in Australia or elsewhere or exported from Australia; (b) to provide a framework for the States and Territories to adopt a uniform approach to control the availability and accessibility, and ensure the safe handling, of poisons in Australia; (c) provide for a scheme allowing pharmacists to substitute certain medicine for other medicine if the Minister has declared there is a serious scarcity of the other medicine; (d) provide for the establishment and maintenance of a national system of controls relating to the regulation of vaping goods that are imported into Australia; or manufactured in Australia; or supplied in Australia, whether manufactured in Australia or elsewhere; or exported from Australia. The Act is organised in two Volumes. Volume I contains preliminary provisions; it regulates Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods; prohibition on import, export, manufacture or supply of therapeutic goods—international agreements; and medicines and other therapeutic goods that are not medical devices. Volume II concerns medical devices, vaping goods, regulates advertising, counterfeit therapeutic goods and product tampering. Then follows provisions on enforcement and administration of the Act.
Австралия · 1990-01-17