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Therapeutic Goods Act 1989
7Declaration that goods are/are not therapeutic goods
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#### 7 Declaration that goods are/are not therapeutic goods
(1) Where the Secretary is satisfied that classes of goods:
(a) are or are not therapeutic goods; or
(b) when used, advertised, or presented for supply in a particular way, are or are not therapeutic goods;
the Secretary may, by legislative instrument, make an order declaring that the classes of goods, or the classes of goods when used, advertised, or presented for supply in that way, are or are not, for the purposes of this Act, therapeutic goods.
(1A) In deciding whether classes of goods:
(a) are therapeutic goods; or
(b) when used, advertised, or presented for supply in a particular way, are therapeutic goods;
the Secretary must disregard paragraphs (e) and (f) of the definition of therapeutic goods in subsection 3(1).
(4) If a declaration under this section:
(a) is a declaration that classes of goods are not therapeutic goods; and
(b) applies wholly or partly to goods that, apart from this section, would be medical devices;
the goods are not medical devices, or are not medical devices when used, advertised, or presented for supply in the way specified in the declaration.