17When medicines and poisons standard applies to

17 When medicines and poisons standard applies to For this Act, a schedule or appendix of the medicines and poisons standard applies to a substance in a circumstance if— (a) the substance is included in the schedule or appendix; and (b) either— (i) an exclusion in the standard does not, in the circumstance, exclude the substance from the operation of the schedule or appendix; or (ii) if a restriction is mentioned in the standard for the substance—the restriction applies in relation to the substance in the circumstance. Example—par (b) (ii) Substance X is included in sch 4 (Prescription only medicine) of the medicines and poisons standard. Its listing is followed by the restriction ‘for human therapeutic use’. Substance X is not included in another schedule or an appendix of the standard. The standard applies to substance X only for human therapeutic use. Note See also s 9 (Inconsistency between Act and medicines and poisons standard).