Poisons and Narcotic Drugs (Amendment) Act (No 2) 1981 (ACT)

Poisons and Narcotic Drugs (Amendment)

Ordinance (No. 2) 1981

No. 56 of 1981

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following

Ordinance under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910.

Dated 21 December 1981.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency's Command,

MICHAEL MACKELLAR Minister of State for Health

An Ordinance to amend the Poisons and Narcotic Drugs Ordinance 1978

Short title

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Poisons and Narcotic Drugs

(Amendment) Ordinance (No. 2) 1981.'

2. After section 48 of the Poisons and Narcotic Drugs Ordinance 1978" the

following section is inserted:

Advertising of scheduled substances

(a)	circulating only amongst medical practitioners, dentists, veterinary surgeons or pharmacists; or
(b)	declared by the Minister, by notice in the Gazette, to be an exempt
publication for the purposes of this section.".

"48A. (1) A person shall not, by any means, publish an advertisement

(a)	to the effect that he or any other person is willing or entitled to supply; or
(b)	promoting or encouraging the use of,

a substance specified in Schedule 1,4, 8 or 12.

Penalty: $1,000 or imprisonment for 1 year, or both.

"(2) Nothing in sub-section (1) applies in relation to an advertisement in a

magazine, journal, circular or paper-

N O T E S

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 31 December 1981.

2. No. 38, 1978 as amended by No. 19, 1981.