Poisons and Drugs (Amendment) Act (No 3) 1994 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Poisons and Drugs (Amendment) Act
(No. 3) 1994

No. 94 of 1994

An Act to amend the Poisons and Drugs Act 1978

[Notified in ACT Gazette S280:  15 December 1994]

The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:

Short title

1.  This Act may be cited as the Poisons and Drugs (Amendment) Act (No. 3) 1994.

Commencement

2.  This Act commences on 18 December 1994.

Principal Act

3.  In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Poisons and Drugs Act 1978.1

Interpretation

4.  Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting “recommended by the National Health and Medical Research Council” from the definition of “Drugs and Poisons Standard” in subsection (1) and substituting “published by the Australian Health Ministers’ Advisory Council”.

NOTE

1. Reprinted as at 31 July 1993.  See also Act No. 44, 1993; Nos. 40, 57 and 60, 1994.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 10 November 1994]

©  Australian Capital Territory 1994