Therapeutic Goods Amendment Act (No. 3) 2006

No. 96, 2006

An Act to amend the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989

Contents

1 Short title

2 Commencement

3 Schedule(s)

Schedule 1—Amendments

Therapeutic Goods Act 1989

Therapeutic Goods Amendment Act (No. 3) 2006

No. 96, 2006

An Act to amend the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989

[Assented to 5 September 2006]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1  Short title

  This Act may be cited as the Therapeutic Goods Amendment Act (No. 3) 2006.

2  Commencement

  This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3  Schedule(s)

  Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Therapeutic Goods Act 1989

1  Paragraph 37(1)(a)

Omit “in writing”.

2  At the end of section 37

Add:

 (3) An approval of a form mentioned in paragraph (1)(a), or a notice mentioned in subsection (2), may require or permit an application or information to be given in accordance with specified software requirements:

 (a) on a specified kind of data processing device; or

 (b) by way of a specified kind of electronic transmission.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 11 May 2006

Senate on 14 August 2006]