Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 2008
182Power of court to order further analysis
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182 Power of court to order further analysis (1) This section applies if the court before which a person is being prosecuted for an offence against this Act is satisfied that there is a disagreement between the evidence of the analysts for the parties to the proceeding. (2) The court may order that the part of a sample kept for comparison under section 135 (Procedures for dividing samples) be sent by the chief health officer to an independent analyst. (3) For subsection (2), the order may require the sample to be sent to a particular analyst or to an analyst agreed to by the parties.
(4) An analysis of a sample under this section is for the information of the court. (5) Subject to section 175 (Court may order costs and expenses), the cost of an analysis under this section is payable by the Territory.
Chapter 12 Regulations about regulated substances and regulated 183 Meaning of regulated thing—ch 12 regulated thing means a regulated substance or regulated therapeutic 184 Regulation-making power (1) The Executive may make regulations for this Act. (2) A regulation may create offences and fix maximum penalties of not more than 30 penalty units for the offences.