Statutory Rules

1979 No. 135

REGULATIONS UNDER THE THERAPEUTIC GOODS ACT 19661

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Therapeutic Goods Act 1966.

Dated this fourth day of July 1979.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

RALPH HUNT

Minister of State for Health

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AMENDMENTS OF THE THERAPEUTIC GOODS REGULATIONS2

Therapeutic Goods Advisory Committee

1. Regulation 17 of the Therapeutic Goods Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (g) of sub-regulation (2) “and”(last occurring );

(b) by adding at the end of sub-regulation (2) the following word and paragraph:

“; and (i) a person appointed by the Minister on the nomination of The Australian Federation of Consumer Organizations Incorporated.’’; and

(c) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:

“(5) If the Minister becomes aware that a member of the Committee appointed by him on the nomination of a body referred to in paragraph (2) (d), (e), (f), (g), (h) or (i) will be unable to attend a meeting or meetings of the Committee, the Minister may appoint another person nominated by the body that nominated the member, to act instead of that member at the meeting or meetings from which he will be absent, and the person so appointed shall, while so acting, be deemed to be a member of the Committee.”.

Therapeutic Goods Standards Committee

2. Regulation 18 of the Therapeutic Goods Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (d) of sub-regulation (2) “Pharmaceutical Association of Australia and New Zealand” and substituting “ Pharmaceutical Society of Australia”; and

(b) by omitting paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (6) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(a) in the case of the member appointed on the nomination of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia appoint another person nominated by that Society; or ”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 10 July 1979.

2. Statutory Rules 1970 No. 165 as amended by Statutory Rules 1973 Nos. 76 and 225; 1974 No. 166; and 1975 No. 36.