Therapeutic Substances Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1965 No. 60

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE THERAPEUTIC SUBSTANCES ACT 1953-L959 *

I, THE ADMINISTATOR OF THE GOVERMENT of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Therapeutic Substances Act 1953-1959.

Dated this thirteenth day of May, 1965.

HENRY ABEL SMITH

ADMINISTATOR

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Health,

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Amendments of the Therapeutic Substances Regulations.

Australian Drug Evaluation Committee.

1. After regulation 21 of the Therapeutic Substances Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

“21a.—(1.) There shall be a committee to be known as the Australian Drug Evaluation Committee.

“(2.) The Committee shall consist of seven persons, each of whom is a medical practitioner eminent in his profession and of whom at least three are specialists in clinical medicine and at least one is a pharmacologist.

“(3.) The members of the Committee shall be appointed by the Minister.

“(4.) The Minister shall appoint one of the members of the Committee to be chairman of the Committee.

“(5.) The functions of the Committee are—

(a) to make medical and scientific evaluations of such therapeutic substances as the Minister refers to it for evaluation;

(b) to make medical and scientific evaluations of other therapeutic substances if, in the opinion of the Committee, it is desirable to do so; and

(c) to furnish such advice to the Minister as the Committee considers necessary relating to the importation into, and the distribution within, Australia of .therapeutic substances which have been the subject of evaluations made by it.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 20 May, 1965.

  Statutory Rules 1956, No.4 as amended by Statutory Rules 1956, No. 113; 1957, No. 64; 1958, No. 21; 1959, No. 14; 1961, No. 49; 1962, Nos. 56 and 97; and 1965, No .

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Chairman and Secretary of Committees.

2. Regulation 22 of the Therapeutic Substances Regulations is amended by omitting the words “Subject to” and inserting in their stead the words “Subject to sub-regulation (4.) of the last preceding regulation and to”.

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By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.