Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00632:section:52d
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00632
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 52D
Character Range: 1069223–1070750

52D  Poisons Standard
 (1) On the commencement of this Part, the first Poisons Standard is taken to have been prepared and made available by the then National Drugs and Poisons Schedule Committee.
 (2) Subject to this Act and the regulations, the Secretary may:
 (a) amend the current Poisons Standard; or
 (b) prepare a document (including schedules containing the names or descriptions of substances or classes of substances), in substitution for the current Poisons Standard.
 (3) The Secretary may exercise a power under subsection (2) on the Secretary's own initiative or following an application under section 52EAA.
 (4A) An instrument made under paragraph (2)(a) or (b) after the commencement of this subsection is a legislative instrument, but section 42 (disallowance) of the Legislation Act 2003 does not apply to the instrument.
 (4B) Despite subsection 14(2) of the Legislation Act 2003, an instrument made under paragraph (2)(a) or (b) of this section may make provision in relation to a matter by applying, adopting or incorporating any matter contained in an instrument or other writing as in force or existing from time to time.
 (5) In this section:
amend, in relation to the current Poisons Standard, means:
 (a) alter any provision (including a reference to a substance) in the current Poisons Standard; or
 (b) omit any provision (including a reference to a substance) from the current Poisons Standard; or
 (c) insert any provision (including a reference to a substance) in the current Poisons Standard.