49Health Secretary may make restriction orders

49 Health Secretary may make restriction orders

49 Health Secretary may make restriction orders

(1) The Health Secretary may, by written order (a restriction order) given to a person, prohibit or restrict the person from carrying out an activity that the person is authorised to do under this Chapter, including possessing, supplying, wholesale supplying, obtaining wholesale supply, administering, dispensing, using, prescribing, manufacturing, storing or disposing of scheduled substances or other prescribed therapeutic goods.

(2) An activity is not authorised under this Act if it is carried out in contravention of a restriction order.

(3) A restriction order may, without limitation, prohibit or restrict an activity—

(a) by reference to specified therapeutic goods, circumstances, factors or exceptions, or

(b) unless it is carried out in a specified way, or

(c) generally or by reference to one or more classes or subclasses of activities.

(4) A restriction order may be made subject to conditions.

(5) A person must not contravene a restriction order applying to the person.

Maximum penalty for subsection (5)—Tier 3 penalty.