Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

THERAPEUTIC GOODS ACT 1989 - SECT 3AA

Homoeopathic preparation

  (1)   For the purposes of this Act, a homoeopathic preparation is a preparation:

  (a)   manufactured from a mother substance; and

  (b)   manufactured in accordance with a manufacturing procedure described in a homoeopathic pharmacopoeia.

Homoeopathic standard

  (2)   For the purposes of this Act, if:

  (a)   there are therapeutic goods that are a homoeopathic preparation; and

  (b)   the goods are the subject of one or more monographs (other than a monograph exempt under subsection   (4)) in the homoeopathic pharmacopoeia describing the manufacturing procedure that the preparation was manufactured in accordance with;

then there is a homoeopathic standard , in relation to the goods, that is constituted by the statements (other than statements exempt under subsection   (5)) in those monographs, as interpreted in accordance with any interpretation sections of that homoeopathic pharmacopoeia.

Specifying publications

  (3)   The Minister may, by legislative instrument, specify either or both of the following for the purposes of the definition of homoeopathic pharmacopoeia in subsection   3(1):

  (a)   publications;

  (b)   parts of publications.

Exempting entire monographs

  (4)   The Minister may, by legislative instrument, determine that specified monographs in a specified homoeopathic pharmacopoeia are exempt for the purposes of paragraph   (2)(b).

Note:   For specification by class, see subsection   13(3) of the Legislation Act 2003 .

Exempting parts of monographs

  (5)   The Minister may, by legislative instrument, determine that specified statements in specified monographs in a specified homoeopathic pharmacopoeia are exempt for the purposes of subsection   (2).