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CRIMES ACT 1900 - SECT 171

Prescribing and supplying anabolic steroids

    (1)     A person commits an offence if the person prescribes an anabolic steroid for someone else for human use.

Maximum penalty: 500 penalty units, imprisonment for 5 years or both.

    (2)     A person commits an offence if the person supplies an anabolic steroid for someone else for human use.

Maximum penalty: 500 penalty units, imprisonment for 5 years or both.

    (3)     This section does not apply to an anabolic steroid if the anabolic steroid is—

        (a)     registered under the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989

(Cwlth); or

        (b)     prescribed or supplied for the purposes of a clinical trial conducted under that Act.

    (4)     In this section:

"prescribe"—see the Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 2008

, dictionary.

"supply"—see the Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 2008

, section 24.

Note     Supply includes sell and dispense (see Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 2008

, s 24).



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