138Labelling of unscheduled therapeutic goods

138 Labelling of unscheduled therapeutic goods

138 Labelling of unscheduled therapeutic goods

(1) A person providing a health service must ensure an unscheduled therapeutic good supplied to a patient for therapeutic use is labelled in the same way scheduled substances are required to be labelled under the Commonwealth Poisons Standard, Appendix L.

Maximum penalty—Tier 5 penalty.

(2) This section does not apply if—

(a) the good is supplied to the patient, unopened, in the container in which it was received by the person providing the health service, and

(b) the container is labelled in accordance with the requirements of the Commonwealth therapeutic goods laws.

(3) In this section—

unscheduled therapeutic good means a therapeutic good that is not a scheduled substance or a medical device.