(1) A person commits an offence if:
(a) the person disseminates, by any means, generic information about therapeutic goods to the public or a section of the public; and
(b) the dissemination of that generic information does not comply with the provisions of the Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code that are prescribed by regulations for the purposes of section 42DO.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 12 months or 1,000 penalty units, or both.
(2) A person commits an offence if:
(a) the person disseminates, by any means, generic information about therapeutic goods to the public or a section of the public; and
(b) the dissemination of that generic information does not comply with the provisions of the Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code that are prescribed by regulations for the purposes of section 42DO.
(3) An offence against subsection (2) is an offence of
strict liability.