Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2010A00054:clause:1_32cm
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2010A00054
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 32CM
Character Range: 66565–68226

32CM  Exemptions for medical practitioners
 (1) The Secretary may, in writing, authorise a specified medical practitioner to supply a specified biological, for use in the treatment of humans, to the class or classes of recipients specified in the authority.
Note: Section 32CN contains criminal offences relating to the giving an authority to a medical practitioner.
 (2) The Secretary may give an authority under subsection (1) subject to any conditions that are specified in the authority.
 (3) The Secretary may impose conditions (or further conditions) on an authority given to a person under subsection (1) by giving to the person written notice of the conditions (or further conditions).
 (4) An authority under subsection (1) may only be given:
 (a) to a medical practitioner included in a class of medical practitioners prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph; or
 (b) to a medical practitioner who has the approval of an ethics committee to supply the specified biological.
Paragraph (b) does not apply in the exceptional circumstances (if any) prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this subsection.
 (5) An authority under subsection (1) may only be given in relation to a class or classes of recipients prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this subsection.
 (6) The regulations may prescribe the circumstances in which a biological may be supplied under an authority under subsection (1).
 (7) An authority under subsection (1) is not a legislative instrument.
 (8) In this section:
medical practitioner means a person who is registered, in a State or internal Territory, as a medical practitioner.