14Adoption and amendment of Poisons List

14 Adoption and amendment of Poisons List

[Section 14 Substituted by No. 27 of 1984, s. 8 ][Section 14 Subsection (2) amended by No. 78 of 2007, s. 5, Applied:01 Jul 2008] [Section 14 Subsection (2) amended by No. 78 of 2007, s. 5, Applied:01 Jul 2008] [Section 14 Substituted by No. 7 of 2012, s. 6, Applied:01 Jul 2012]

(1)  [Section 14 Subsection (1) amended by No. 3 of 2025, s. 12, Applied:16 Apr 2025] The Minister, by order, may adopt all, or a specified part, of the Uniform Standard, as amended from time to time, as the Poisons List for the purposes of this Act.

(2)  The Minister may, by order, amend the Uniform Standard in its application to Tasmania –

(a) by adding a specified substance or class of substances to, or omitting a specified substance or class of substances from, any of the Schedules contained in the Uniform Standard; and

(b) by transferring a specified substance or class of substances from any of those Schedules to any other of those Schedules; and

(c) by amending an item appearing in any of those Schedules; and

(d) by omitting all or any of those Schedules and substituting a new Schedule or Schedules.

(3)  In amending the Uniform Standard under subsection (2) , the Minister must have regard to any relevant classification of substances made from time to time by the United Nations Organization or any of its agencies.

(4)  The Uniform Standard contains the following Schedules and the substances specified in those Schedules are classified in accordance with the following provisions:

(a) Schedule 1 substances;

(b) Schedule 2 substances – Substances, the safe use of which may require advice from a pharmacist and which should be available from a pharmacy or, where a pharmacy service is not available, from a licensed person;

(c) Schedule 3 substances – Substances, the safe use of which requires professional advice but which should be available to the public from a pharmacist without prescription;