I, SARAH JANE HALTON, Secretary of the Department of Health, make this Specification under subsection 41BEA of the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989.

Dated 24 June 2014

(Signed by)

SARAH JANE HALTON

1              Name of Specification

                This Specification is the Therapeutic Goods (Excluded purposes) Amendment Specification 2014 (No.1).

2              Commencement

                This Specification commences on the day after it is registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.

3              Amendment of Therapeutic Goods (Excluded purposes) Specification 2010

                The Therapeutic Goods (Excluded purposes) Specification 2010 is amended as set out in the Schedule to this Specification.

Schedule 1     Amendments

(section 3)

 [1]      Paragraph 4(2)(a)

Repeal the paragraph and substitute:

(a)    to test specimens from the human body for the presence of, or exposure to, pathogenic organisms or transmissible agents (other than the Human Immunodeficiency Virus), including agents that cause notifiable infectious diseases;

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