1Medicines and Poisons (Validation) Act 2022

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Medicines and Poisons (Validation) Act 2022

Western Australia

Medicines and Poisons (Validation) Act 2022

Contents

1. Short title 2

2. Commencement 2

3. Act binds Crown 2

4. Validation 2

Notes

Compilation table 5

Defined terms

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Medicines and Poisons (Validation) Act 2022

An Act to make provision in relation to the definition of Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Medicines and Poisons (SUSMP) in the Medicines and Poisons Regulations 2016 regulation 3(1).

1. Short title

This is the Medicines and Poisons (Validation) Act 2022.

2. Commencement

This Act comes into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3. Act binds Crown

This Act binds the Crown in right of Western Australia and, so far as the legislative power of the Parliament permits, the Crown in all its other capacities.

4. Validation

(1) In this section —

non‑legislative instrument means any of the following that is made, issued or given under a written law but that is not itself a written law —

(a) a consent, licence, permit, approval or other form of authorisation;

(b) a decision, determination, direction, exemption or instruction;

(c) a code, notice, order, protocol, rule or standard;

(d) an instrument not covered by paragraphs (a) to (c);

relevant definition means the definition of Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Medicines and Poisons (SUSMP) in the Medicines and Poisons Regulations 2016 regulation 3(1);

validation period means the period beginning on 1 February 2019 and ending on 19 November 2019.

(2) The relevant definition is taken to have been as follows at all times during the validation period —

Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Medicines and Poisons (SUSMP) means the Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Medicines and Poisons set out in the current Poisons Standard;

(3) Subsections (4), (5), (7), (8) and (9) —

(a) supplement subsection (2); but

(b) are not to be construed as limiting the effect of subsection (2) or the effect of each other.