2004-2005-2006

The Parliament of the

Commonwealth of Australia

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Presented and read a first time

Therapeutic Goods Amendment Bill (No. 3) 2006

No.      , 2006

(Health and Ageing)

A Bill for an Act to amend the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989

Contents

1............ Short title............................................................................................ 1

2............ Commencement.................................................................................. 1

3............ Schedule(s).......................................................................................... 1

Schedule 1—Amendments                                                                                                 3

Therapeutic Goods Act 1989                                                                                     3

A Bill for an Act to amend the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989

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                   Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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