Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 2008
57Registers—damage or loss
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57 Registers—damage or loss (b) the register is damaged in a material respect, stolen, lost or destroyed; and
(c) the person fails to tell the chief health officer, in writing, about the damage, theft, loss or destruction as soon as practicable (but not later than 7 days) after the day it happens. (b) the register is damaged in a material respect, stolen, lost or destroyed; and (c) the person does not take an inventory as prescribed by regulation of each regulated substance in the person’s possession to which the register related. Note Possess includes have control over disposition (see s 24). (3) This section does not apply to a register for a regulated substance if the most recent entry in the register is made more than 2 years before the day the register is damaged, stolen, lost or destroyed. material respect—a register for a regulated substance is damaged in a material respect if anything required to be entered in the register is missing or cannot be easily read.