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Therapeutic Goods (Advisory Committee Meetings) (Information) Specification 2022

I, Jane Cook as delegate of the Minister for Health and Aged Care, make the following specification.

Dated 1 February 2022

Dr Jane Cook

First Assistant Secretary

Medicines Regulation Division

Health Products Regulation Group

Department of Health

1 Name

This instrument is the Therapeutic Goods (Advisory Committee Meetings) (Information) Specification 2022

2 Commencement

(1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this instrument	The day after this instrument is registered.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3 Authority

This instrument is made under subsection 61(5D) of the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989.

4 Definitions

Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in subsection 3(1) of the Act, including the following:

(a) Secretary.

In this instrument:

Act means Therapeutic Goods Act 1989.

committee means an advisory committee established under Part 6 of the Regulations.

Regulations means the Therapeutic Goods Regulations 1990.

therapeutic goods information has the meaning given by subsection 61(1) of the Act.

5 Therapeutic goods information

The kinds of therapeutic goods information set out in the table in Schedule 1 are specified for the purpose of subsection 61(5C) of the Act.

Note: Kinds of therapeutic goods information specified under subsection 61(5D) of the Act may be released by the Secretary to the public under subsection 61(5C) of the Act.

6 Repeals

Each instrument that is specified in Schedule 2 is repealed as set out in the applicable items in that Schedule.

Schedule 1—Specified kinds of therapeutic goods information

Note: See section 5.

Kinds of therapeutic goods information
Column 1	Column 2
Item	Kinds of Information
1	information about the nature or content of any discussion about matters or items considered by a committee at a committee meeting, or a summary of such a discussion

Schedule 2—Repeals

Note: See section 6.

Therapeutic Goods Information (Information about Advisory Committee Meetings) Specification 2014

1 The whole of the instrument

Repeal the instrument.