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171 Prescribing and supplying anabolic steroids
(1) A person commits an offence if the person prescribes an anabolic
steroid for someone else for human use.
(2) A person commits an offence if the person supplies an anabolic
steroid for someone else for human use.
(3) This section does not apply to an anabolic steroid if the anabolic
steroid is—
(a) registered under the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 (Cwlth); or
(b) prescribed or supplied for the purposes of a clinical trial
conducted under that Act.
Anabolic steroids Part 8
prescribe—see the Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods
Act 2008, dictionary.
supply—see the Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods
Act 2008, section 24.
Note Supply includes sell and dispense (see Medicines, Poisons and
Therapeutic Goods Act 2008, s 24).