Commonwealth Numbered Acts

THERAPEUTIC GOODS AMENDMENT ACT 1991 No. 204 of 1991 - SECT 5

5. Section 19 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end the
following subsections:

"(5) The Secretary may, in writing, authorise a specified medical practitioner
to supply:

   (a)  specified therapeutic goods for use in the treatment of humans; or

   (b)  a specified class of such goods; to the class or classes of recipients
        specified in the authority.

"(6) An authority under subsection (5) may only be given:

   (a)  to a medical practitioner included in a class of medical practitioners
        prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph; and

   (b)  in relation to a class or classes of recipients prescribed by the
        regulations for the purposes of this paragraph.

"(7) The regulations may prescribe the circumstances in which therapeutic
goods may be supplied under an authority under subsection (5).

"(8) The giving of an authority under subsection (5) does not render the
Commonwealth, the Secretary or a delegate of the Secretary liable to a person
in respect of loss, damage or injury of any kind suffered by the person as a
result of, or arising out of, the use of therapeutic goods by that person or
another person.

"(9) In this section, "medical practitioner" means a person who is registered,
in a State or internal Territory, as a medical practitioner.".