Poisons Amendment Regulations (No. 3) 1990 (WA)

4080 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA (17 August 1990

and the Gazettes of 8 and 22 June 1990.1

POISONS ACT 1964

POISONS AMENDMENT REGULATIONS (No. 3) 1990

Made by His Excellency the Governor in Executive Council.
Citation

1.These regulations may be cited as the Poisons Amendment Regulations

(No. 3) 1990.

Principal regulations

2.In these regulations the Poisons Regulations 1965* are referred to as the

principal regulations.

[*Reprinted in the Gazette of 5 August 1987 at pp. 2987-3078. For amendments
to 2 July 1990 see pages 322-23 of 1989 Index to Legislation of Western Australia

17 August 1990] GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 4081

Regulation 20 amended

3. Regulation 20 of the principal regulations is amended in subregulation (3)—

(a) by deleting "No. 3" and substituting the following—

No. 4 "; and

(b) by deleting "105th Session, June 1988" and substituting the following-

107th Session, June 1989 ".

Regulation 24A inserted
4. After regulation 24 of the principal regulations and before the heading

"Containers and Labels—General" the following regulation is inserted—

Carcinogenicity and Teratogenicity
warnings to be approved

" 24A. A person shall not include on a label a statement relating to carcinogenicity or teratogenicity in relation to any poison or hazardous substance unless the statement in relation to the poison or hazardous substance has been approved by the chief executive officer. ".

Regulation 37 amended

5. Regulation 37 of the principal regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting after the regulation designation "37." the subregulation

designation " (1) "; and

(b) by inserting the following subregulation—

(2) With the written approval of the chief executive officer a medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon may issue a typewritten prescription where the chief executive officer is satis- fied that by reason of physical infirmity the prescriber is unable to write legibly in his or her own handwriting but in that case the prescriber shall sign the prescription with his or her usual signature. ".

Regulation 41AA inserted
6. After regulation 41A of the principal regulations the following regulation is

inserted—

Standard for intramammary antibiotic preparations

tt 41AA. A person shall not sell or supply any preparation for intramammary

infusion in animals which contains any antibiotic substance unless it is packed in an applicator device specially designed for intramammary infusion and is suitably coloured with no less than 25 mg per dose of Brilliant Blue FCF so that the visual end point excludes 95% of excreted antibiotic. ".

Appendix A amended

7. Appendix A to the principal regulations is amended—

(a)	in Form 6B by deleting "First,"; and
(b)	in Form 6C by deleting "First," in both places where it occurs.

By His Excellency's Command,

G. PEARCE, Clerk of the Council.