143Health Secretary may make supply prohibition orders

143 Health Secretary may make supply prohibition orders

143 Health Secretary may make supply prohibition orders

(1) The Health Secretary may make an order (a supply prohibition order) that prohibits the supply of a substance specified in the order if satisfied that the substance should not be supplied pending the evaluation of the toxic or deleterious properties of the substance.

(2) A supply prohibition order must be published in the Gazette as soon as practicable after it is made.

(3) Failure to comply with subsection (2) does not invalidate the supply prohibition order.

(4) A supply prohibition order commences on—

(a) the day specified in the order, or

(b) if no day is specified—the day on which the order is published in the Gazette.

(5) Unless earlier revoked, a supply prohibition order expires at the end of—

(a) 90 days after it commences, or

(b) an earlier day specified in the order.

(6) A person must not contravene a supply prohibition order.

Maximum penalty for subsection (6)—Tier 4 penalty.