55Regulations about activities involving certain therapeutic goods and preparations

55 Regulations about activities involving certain therapeutic goods and preparations

55 Regulations about activities involving certain therapeutic goods and preparations

(1) The regulations may provide for prohibiting or otherwise regulating activities in connection with the following—

(a) the manufacture, compounding, supply, administration, possession or use of the following (applicable goods)—

(i) scheduled substances,

(ii) therapeutic goods that are not scheduled substances,

(iii) sterile compounded preparations,

(b) the issue of prescriptions for applicable goods,

(c) the storage, labelling and packaging of applicable goods,

(d) the preparation and handling of applicable goods, including the use and condition of the premises used for the preparation and handling,

(e) the provision of access to applicable goods,

(f) record keeping in relation to applicable goods, including the keeping of registers for applicable goods,

(g) the destruction of applicable goods.

(2) Despite subsection (1), the regulations cannot prohibit the manufacture or compounding of applicable goods or sterile compounded preparations.

(3) The power to make regulations under this section is not limited by other provisions of this Chapter prohibiting or regulating, or authorising regulations to prohibit or regulate, activities of the kind specified in this section.

(4) In this section—

sterile compounded preparation means a compound of substances, whether or not containing scheduled substances, that is required to be kept sterile, and includes a preparation in—

(a) parenteral dosage form, other than an intradermal or subcutaneous injection of an allergen extract, and

(b) ophthalmic dosage form.